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HMS Brazen (F91)

1982 Type 22 or Broadsword-class frigate of the Royal Navy

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section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	HMS Brazen F91.jpg
image_caption	HMS Brazen
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
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name	Brazen
builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
laid_down	18 August 1978
launched	4 March 1980
commissioned	2 July 1982
decommissioned	30 August 1996
identification	Pennant number: F91
honours	"Kuwait 1991"
fate	Sold to Brazil 18 November 1994
section3	{{Infobox ship/career
hide_header	title
country	Brazil
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name	Bosisio
namesake	Almirante Paulo Bosísio
acquired	18 November 1994
commissioned	30 August 1996
decommissioned	29 September 2015
homeport	Rio de Janeiro
identification	* Pennant number: F-48
fate	Sunk as target, July 2017
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	Type 22 frigate
displacement	4,400 tons
length	131.2 m
beam	14.8 m
draught	6.1 m
propulsion	*2 shafts, COGOG
*2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines, {{cvt	54,600	shp	lk	in}}
speed	30 kn max
complement	222
armament	*2 × 2 × torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes
aircraft	2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters
aircraft_facilities	Helipad and hangar

Callsign: PWBO
2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines, 54,600 shp
2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines, 9,700 shp
2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf surface-to-air missile launchers
4 × 1 Exocet surface-to-surface missile launchers
2 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns
2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon '*HMS *Brazen''''' was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was completed three months ahead of schedule due to the Falklands War.

Royal Navy service

Brazen served on the Armilla Patrol which became a task force during the Gulf War as part of Operation Granby. For this she received the battle honour "Kuwait 1991". On 24 January 1991, Brazen would screen the British Casualty Receiving ship when a pair of Iraqi Mirage F1 aircraft made a run for the vessel, armed with AM39 Exocet anti-ship missiles. The Iraqi aircraft were shot down by Saudi F-15C fighter aircraft before they could fire their anti-ship missiles. During the war, her Lynx helicopter attacked fast patrol boats.

Following a patrol in the South Atlantic Brazen ran aground in the Patagonian Canal on 11 September 1994. The ship was refloated four days later and taken to Talcahuano for repairs, which lasted a month. She then returned to the UK under her own power for reinstatement of combat system equipment damaged in the incident at Devonport royal dockyard.

By late 1995, Brazen was back in active service, operating in the Adriatic Sea as part of a Royal Navy task group led by the aircraft carrier for Operation Sharp Guard. In early 1996, Brazen rescued 30 Albanians from a sinking vessel. In May 1996, she returned to Devonport for the final time before being officially handed over to the Brazilian Navy in August 1996.

Brazilian service

She was purchased from the United Kingdom by the Brazilian Navy on 18 November 1994, and renamed Bosísio. The ship was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy on 30 August 1996.

In June 2009, Bosísio participated in the recovery mission for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447.

She was decommissioned from Brazilian Navy service on 23 September 2015. The ship was sunk as a target in July 2017 during the Brazilian Navy operation 'MISSILEX 2017'.

References

Publications

References

(24 February 1993). "Written answers 1993 Gulf War". [[Hansard.
renowned youtuber Mighty Jingles's (https://www.youtube.com/@BohemianEagle) first hand account as Brazen's radio operator on duty at the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDfDnZ7FiZg&t=232s
"The Royal Navy and the Gulf War".
(17 October 1995). "Defence". [[Hansard.
(March 1996). "Brazen saves 30 boat people". Navy News.
(28 April 2016). "199605".
(3 May 2016). "199606".
[http://www.naviosdeguerrabrasileiros.hpg.ig.com.br/B/B055/B055.htm F Bosísio - F 48] {{webarchive. link. (22 February 2009 Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Retrieved 3 June 2009.)
[http://www.naval.com.br/blog/2015/09/25/baixa-do-servico-ativo-da-fragata-bosisio-e-da-corveta-frontin] Poder Naval OnLine. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
[http://www.naval.com.br/blog/2017/08/01/missilex-2017-afundamento-da-ex-fragata-bosisio/] Poder Naval OnLine. Retrieved 1 de agosto de 2017.

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