Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	7 February 1975
Launched:	12 May 1976
Commissioned:	4 May 1979
Decommissioned:	31 March 1995
Fate:	Sold to Brazil on 30 June 1995.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,300 tons
Length:	148.1 m
Beam:	14.8 m
Draught:
Propulsion:
Speed:	33 km/h cruise, 56 km/h sprint
Range:
Complement:	250
Armament:	114 mm MK 8 gun
Aircraft:	Lynx MK 8 helicopter
Motto:

HMS Broadsword (F88) was the lead ship and first Batch 1 unit of the Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She took part in the Falklands War and was accompanying Coventry on May 25, 1982 when that ship was sunk. Broadswords Lynx helicopter was destroyed by one bomb. She rescued 170 of Coventrys crew. The ship shot down four aircraft during the war. She was decommissioned on 31 March 1995 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 June 1995 and renamed Greenhalgh.

See HMS Broadsword for other ships of the same name.