HMS Battleaxe (F89)
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HMS Battleaxe
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| Name: | HMS Battleaxe |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1976 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1977 |
| Commissioned: | 28 March 1980 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 August 1996 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F89 |
| Fate: | Sold to Brazil 30 April 1997 |
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| Name: | Rademaker |
| Operator: | Brazilian Navy |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F49 |
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| Class & type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,400 tons |
| Length: | 131.2 m (430 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (49 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
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| Complement: | 222 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters |
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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.
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 was featured in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.
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