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Name
  
HMS Boxer

Commissioned
  
22 December 1983

Identification
  
Pennant number F92

Launched
  
17 June 1981

Weight
  
4,877 tons

Draft
  
6.4 m

Laid down
  
1 November 1979

Decommissioned
  
4 August 1999

Construction started
  
1 November 1979

Length
  
146 m

Displacement
  
4.354 million kg

Builder
  
Yarrow Shipbuilders

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Motto
  
Praemonitus Praemunitis (Latin "Forewarned is Forearmed")

HMS Boxer was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August 2004.

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Service

Her nickname was The Billy B or Pinocchio, due to her extended bows. She was one of only two Batch 2s (the other being Beaver) fitted with the lower-height hangar of the Batch 1s, so she could only accommodate Lynx helicopters. On coming out of refit in 1990, with a clean bottom she achieved close to 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph).

During 1996 and 1997 she was leader of the 1st Frigate Squadron.

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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