HMS Achilles (F12)
Achilles at Chatham on 3 May 1981 | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Achilles |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down | 1 December 1967 |
| Launched | 21 November 1968 |
| Commissioned | 9 July 1970 |
| Decommissioned | January 1990 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F12 |
| Fate | Sold to Chilean Navy |
| Chile | |
| Name | Ministro Zenteno |
| Namesake | José Ignacio Zenteno |
| Commissioned | 8 January 1991 |
| Decommissioned | August 2006 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
| Length | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
| Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 223 |
| Armament | ;As built:
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| Aircraft carried | ;As built:
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HMS Achilles was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow at Glasgow. She was launched on 21 November 1968 and commissioned on 9 July 1970. She was sold to Chile in 1991 and served in the Chilean Navy as Ministro Zenteno. She was washed away from her berth at Talcahuano by a tsunami following the February 2010 Chile earthquake, and ran aground on the coast a few kilometres to the north. She was scuttled the following month by the Chilean Navy as a danger to navigation.