HMS Brilliant (F90)

	HMS Brilliant enters a port during exercise Ocean Safari 1985
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Brilliant
Operator	Royal Navy
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down	25 March 1977
Launched	15 December 1978
Commissioned	15 May 1981
Decommissioned	1996
Identification	Pennant number: F90
Fate	Sold to Brazil 31 August 1996
Brazil
Name	Dodsworth
Operator	Brazilian Navy
Identification	Pennant number: F-47
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 22 frigate
Displacement	4,400 tons
Length	131.2 m (430 ft)
Beam	14.8 m (48 ft)
Draught	6.1 m (20 ft)
Propulsion	2 shafts, COGOG; 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines (54,600 shp); 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp);
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h) cruise; 30 knots (56 km/h) top speed;
Complement	222
Armament	2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM launchers; 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers; 2 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns;
Aircraft carried	2 × Lynx MK 3S helicopters
Aviation facilities	1x Double Hangar with refuelling facilities

HMS Brilliant was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.

Brilliant took part in the only ship-to-ship engagement of the Falklands War, when she and HMS Yarmouth chased the Argentine coaster Monsunen, in the Battle of Seal Cove.

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