Built as a frigate by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow for the Royal Navy.
14 December 1985 laid down.
10 July 1987 launched under the name HMS NORFOLK (F230) one of Duke Class type 23. Princess Margaret christened her.
Displacement 3.500 ton standard, 4.200 ton full load. Dim. 133 x 16.1 x 5.5m.
Powered by CODLAG 2 Royal Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines, 31.100hp. Four Paxman 12 CM diesels 8.100hp. 2 GEC motors 4.000hp, two shafts, speed 28 knots, diesel electric 15 knots.
Range 7.800 miles at 15 knots.
Armament: SSM 8 McDonald Douglas Harpoon launchers, surface-to-surface missiles. SAM British Aerospace Seawolf GWS.
1 – 4.5 inch, 2 DES/MSI DS 30B 30mm., 4 Gray Marine torpedo 324mm tubes.
Carried one helicopter.
Crew 181 including 13 officers.
01 June 1990 commissioned. Based in Devonport.
She was the sixth naval vessel to bear the name NORFOLK.
The first of this class were ordered from Yarrows on 29 October 1984 under which the NORFOLK who was the first of the modern generation of Type 23 frigates.
The class is used for all sorts of work, like patrol duties, boarding merchant ships and for anti submarine and anti air defence.
1997 She rescued Karen Thorndyke from her yacht AMELIA when she as first American women tried to sail solo around the world. When she left the Falklands with her yacht on 29 January in good condition, but a few days later she got flu like symptoms that escalated in a flu attack.
She send a distress message asking for help, and the HMS NORFOLK plucked her from her yacht on 3 February bringing her back to the Falklands were she fully recovered.
In 2004 was she used for a deployment in the Eastern Mediterranean in NATO anti-terrorist shipping patrols
The HMS NORFOLK is due for retirement early 2006.
15 April 2005 decommissioned in Devonport.
22 November 2006 commissioned in the Chilean Navy as ALMIRANTE COCHRANE (FF 05)
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Source: Jane’s 2003/04. http://unsd.macrossroleplay.org/rntype23frigate.html http://www.naval-techology.com/projects/t23/ http://www.navynews.co.uk/ships/norfolk.asp http://www.goals.com/amelia/press/pr020397.htm