HMS Boxer (F92)

	Boxer in January 1999
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Boxer
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down	1 November 1979
Launched	17 June 1981
Commissioned	22 December 1983
Decommissioned	4 August 1999
Identification	Pennant number: F92
Motto	Praemonitus Praemunitis; (Latin: "Forewarned is Forearmed");
Fate	Sunk as a target vessel
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 22 frigate
Displacement	4,800 tons
Length	146.5 m (481 ft)
Beam	14.8 m (49 ft)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion	2-shaft COGOG; 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B high-speed gas turbines (54,000 shp (40,000 kW)); 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp (7,200 kW));
Speed	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) cruise; 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) full;
Range	8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi)
Complement	273
Armament	2 × 6 GWS25 Sea Wolf SAM launchers; 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers; 2 × Twin 30 mm AA guns; 2 × 20 mm AA guns; 4 × 7.62 mm GPMGs;
Aircraft carried	2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters

HMS Boxer was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August 2004.

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