ALMIRANTE BLANCO ENCALADA

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ALMIRANTE BLANCO ENCALADA

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Built as a guide-missile destroyer under yard No 817 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Govan, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
31 May 1962 keel laid down.
09 July 1964 launched under the name HMS FIFE (D20), one of the Batch 2 County class destroyers.
Displacement 6.200 tons standard, 6.800 tons full load. Dim. 158.7 x 16.5 x 6.3m. (draught).
Powered; GOSAG by two geared English Electric steam turbines, 30.000 shp. and four Metrovik G6 gas turbines delivering 30.000 shp., twin shafts, speed 32.5 knots.
Range 3.500 miles by a speed of 28 knots.
Armament 4 – 4.5 inch, 2 – 20mm Oerlikons AA guns. 1 twin launcher for 30 Seaslug Mk 2 SAM’s.. One GWS 50 launcher for four MM 38 Exocet anti-ship missiles. Two GWS 22 quadruple launchers for 32 Seacat SAM’s. 2 – 12.75 inch STWS. 1 triple tube for 12 Mk 46 anti-submarine torpedoes.
Up to three helicopters.
Crew 471.
21 June 1966 commissioned.

1968 The three helicopters from HMS FIFE rescued the crew of the coaster TAILAU which was grounded on an island near Fiji.
1970 Took part in the largest fleet exercise of British warships in the Mediterranean.
During mid-1970s was her B turret removed and replaced with four Exocet launchers.
1979 Provided assistance to the Caribbean island Dominica after the passing of hurricane David.
When the Falkland war broke out in 1982 she was under refit and she took not part in this war.
1986 She underwent a refit where her Sea Slug missile system was removed; she was fitted out as a moving training ship for the Dartmouth training squadron. The removal of the missiles did give extra space for an extra messdeck and classrooms for officers under training.
June 1986 refit completed.
Took part in “Ocean Safari 85” in which 28 ships of the Royal Navy took part.
September 1986 she undertook a Dartmouth Training Ship deployment to the West Indies, returning at Dartmouth early December.

June 1987 decommissioned
12 August 1987 sold to Chile.
07 September 1987 commissioned in the Chilean Navy under the name ALMIRANTE BLANCO ENCALADA, the fourth ship in the Chilean navy that carried this name.
After arrival in Chile she underwent a refit by ASMAR at Talcahuano, her deck was extended aft and a new and larger hangar constructed to carry 2 Cougar helicopters, the refitting was completed in May 1988.

1996 The Seacat missiles were removed and replaced by Israeli Barak I SAM surface to air missiles.

12 December 2003 decommissioned.
November 2005 sold for scrap.
28 February 2007 arrived Aliaga, Turkey for scrapping.

(The submarine depict on this stamp is the SIMPSON of the Chilean Navy.)

Chile 1989 45p sg 1248, scott 839

Source: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Fife_(D20) http://www.armada.cl/site/unidades_navales/515.htm
The Encyclopedia of Warships.

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