HMS Fife (D20)

	HMS Fife at Portsmouth Navy Day, 1980
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Fife
Ordered	26 September 1961
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding
Laid down	1 June 1962
Launched	9 July 1964
Commissioned	21 June 1966
Decommissioned	June 1987
Identification	Pennant number: D20
Fate	Sold to Chile on 12 August 1987
Chile
Name	Blanco Encalada
Acquired	August 1987
Commissioned	1988
Decommissioned	12 December 2003
Fate	Sold for scrap in November 2005
General characteristics
Class and type	County-class destroyer
Displacement	6,200 tons; 6,800 tons (full load);
Length	158.9 m (521 ft)
Beam	16 m (52 ft)
Draught	6.2 m (20 ft)
Propulsion	COSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts
Speed	30+ knots
Range	3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) at 28 knots (52 km/h)
Capacity	440-471
Armament	2 × twin turrets with 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns Mark N6 (B turret was later replaced by 4 × MM38 Exocet missile launchers) ; 2 × mountings for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon ; 1 × Twin Seaslug GWS.2 SAM (removed during refit in 1986) ; 2 × Quad Seacat GWS-22 SAM (in Chilean service, the Seacat was replaced by 2 × eight-cell vertical launching system for Barak surface-to-air missiles); 2 × triple 12.75" torpedo tubes;
Aircraft carried	1× Wessex HAS Mk 3 helicopter (in Chilean service, 2× Cougar helicopters)
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and enclosed hangar for embarking one helicopter. (In Chilean service, it was enlarged and expanded for embarkation of two helicopter during refit in 1987)

HMS Fife was the first unit of the Batch 2 County-class destroyers of the Royal Navy. She was subsequently sold to Chile and scrapped in 2005.

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