HMS Coventry (F98)
HMS Coventry
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Coventry |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1984 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1986 |
| Commissioned: | 14 October 1988 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 January 2002 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F98 |
| Fate: | Sold to Romania on 14 January 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons |
| Length: | 146.5 m (481 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (49 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
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| Range: | 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) |
| Complement: | 273 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters |
 Romania
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| Name: | Regele Ferdinand |
| Namesake: | King Ferdinand of Romania |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1984 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1986 |
| Acquired: | 14 January 2003 |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 2004 |
| Identification: | F221 |
| Status: | In active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 5,300 tons |
| Length: | 148.1 m (486 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (49 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Rolls Royce gas turbine engines |
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| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Armament: | 76/62 Oto Melara Super-Rapid gun |
| Aircraft carried: | IAR-330 Puma Naval |
HMS Coventry was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry, a Type 42 destroyer sunk in the Falklands War. Following service in the Royal Navy she was sold to the Romanian Navy in 2003.
Between 1990 and 1996 Coventry was the leader of the 1st Frigate Squadron.
She was purchased from the United Kingdom by the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003, and renamed Regele Ferdinand (King Ferdinand) after Ferdinand I of Romania. The ship was handed over to Romania on 19 August 2004, and underwent sea trials at the same time. Regele Ferdinand was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on 9 September 2004 with the pennant number F221, and is the current flagship of the Romanian Navy. There has since been some controversy over the price at which she was bought.
On 22 March 2011, President of Romania Traian Băsescu said, after a CSAT meeting, that Romania will send the frigate Regele Ferdinand with 205 mariners and two officers on board to enforce an arms embargo in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of the 2011 military intervention in Libya - Operation Unified Protector. During their run in the NATO naval group acting on Operation Unified Protector - 2011, the frigate has traveled over 17,400 nautical miles and carried out around 770 specific tasks.
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