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HMS Broadsword (F88) was the lead ship and first Batch 1 unit of the Type 22 frigate
Type 22 frigate

The Type 22 Broadsword class is a ship class of frigate built for the Royal Navy. Fourteen of the class were built in total, with production divided into three batches....
s of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
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e on sea trials, Broadsword was called into service as the command ship during the large rescue operation required after storms struck the 1979 Fastnet race
1979 Fastnet race

The 1979 Fastnet race was the twenty-eighth Fastnet race, a yachting race competition held since 1925, generally every two years. In 1979, it was the climax of the five-race Admiral's Cup competition, as it had been since 1957....
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Broadsword took part in the 1982 Falklands War
Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
 where, on 25 May 1982, she was providing air defence support to HMS Coventry
HMS Coventry (D118)

HMS Coventry was a Type 42 destroyer destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, launched on 21 June 1974 and commissioned on 20 October 1978....
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HMS Broadsword (F88) was the lead ship and first Batch 1 unit of the Type 22 frigate
Type 22 frigate

The Type 22 Broadsword class is a ship class of frigate built for the Royal Navy. Fourteen of the class were built in total, with production divided into three batches....
s of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
.

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While on sea trials, Broadsword was called into service as the command ship during the large rescue operation required after storms struck the 1979 Fastnet race
1979 Fastnet race

The 1979 Fastnet race was the twenty-eighth Fastnet race, a yachting race competition held since 1925, generally every two years. In 1979, it was the climax of the five-race Admiral's Cup competition, as it had been since 1957....
 .

Broadsword took part in the 1982 Falklands War
Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict/Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands....
 where, on 25 May 1982, she was providing air defence support to HMS Coventry
HMS Coventry (D118)

HMS Coventry was a Type 42 destroyer destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, launched on 21 June 1974 and commissioned on 20 October 1978....
. A technical fault in her Sea Wolf missile
Sea Wolf missile

Sea Wolf is a naval guided missile system designed and built by British Aircraft Corporation, later to become British Aerospace Dynamics . It is an automated point-defence weapon system designed as a final line of defence against both sea-skimming and high angle anti-ship missiles and aircraft....
 system allowed two Argentine Skyhawks
A-4 Skyhawk

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a aircraft carrier ground-attack aircraft designed for the United States Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The delta winged "Skyhawk", powered by a single turbojet was designed and produced by Douglas Aircraft Company ....
 to sink the Coventry. Broadsword was hit by one bomb, which bounced up through the helicopter deck and put out of action a Lynx helicopter, before exiting and exploding harmlessly. She subsequently rescued 170 of the sunken Coventry's crew.

She shot down one IAI Dagger
IAI Nesher

The Israel Aircraft Industries Nesher is the Israeli name of the Dassault Mirage 5 multi-role fighter aircraft. Most were later sold to the Argentine Air Force as Daggers, and later upgraded as Fingers....
 during the war .

She was decommissioned on 31 March 1995 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy
Brazilian Navy

The Brazilian Navy is the navy of Brazil and forms part of the Brazilian Armed Forces. It is the largest navy in Latin America, with a 27,307-ton aircraft carrier, the NAe S?o Paulo , some American and British-built frigates, a few locally-built corvettes, coastal diesel-electric submarines and many other river and coastal patrol craft....
 on 30 June 1995 and renamed Greenhalgh.

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