HMS Battleaxe (F89)

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Name HMS Battleaxe Laid down 4 February 1976 Decommissioned 30 August 1996 Length 131 m Launched 18 May 1977 Displacement 3.992 million kg Builder Yarrow Shipbuilders		Operator Royal Navy Commissioned 28 March 1980 Identification Pennant number F89 Construction started 4 February 1976 Weight 4,471 tons Draft 6.1 m

Similar HMS Broadsword (F88), HMS Victory, HMS Brazen (F91)

HMS Battleaxe was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 April 1997 and renamed Rademaker.

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NAe Rademaker was involved in an unfortunate incident on 29 November 2004, during the annual FRATERNO naval exercise with ships of the Argentinian Navy. While conducting gunnery practice shots against target drones, a technical failure of her automatic weapons system made the Argentinian frigate ARA Sarandi fire on the Brazilian frigate Rademaker, causing injuries to four Brazilian crewmen and an Argentine naval observer, as well as moderate damage to NAe Rademaker.

HMS Battleaxe (F89) HMS Battleaxe F 89 Type 22 Broadsword class Guided Missile Frigate

HMS Battleaxe was featured in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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References

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