![]() HMS Brilliant enters a port during exercise Ocean Safari 1985
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Name | HMS Brilliant |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 25 March 1977 |
Launched | 15 December 1978 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1981 |
Decommissioned | 1996 |
Identification | Pennant number: F90 |
Fate | Sold to Brazil 31 August 1996 |
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Name | Dodsworth |
Operator | Brazilian Navy |
Identification | Pennant number: F-47 |
Fate | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Type 22 frigate |
Displacement | 4,400 tons |
Length | 131.2 m (430 ft) |
Beam | 14.8 m (48 ft) |
Draught | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
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Complement | 222 |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Lynx MK 3S helicopters |
Aviation facilities | 1x Double Hangar with refuelling facilities |
HMS Brilliant was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.
Brilliant took part in the only ship-to-ship engagement of the Falklands War, when she and HMS Yarmouth chased the Argentine coaster Monsunen, in the Battle of Seal Cove.