HMS Boxer (F92)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 1 November 1979 |
| Launched: | 17 June 1981 |
| Commissioned: | 22 December 1983 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 August 1999 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target vessel |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,300 tons |
| Length: | 148.1 m |
| Beam: | 14.8 m |
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| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 33 km/h cruise, 56 km/h sprint |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Armament: | 2 x 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM Launchers, 4 x 1 Exocet SSM Launchers, 2 x 20mm Bofors AA guns |
| Aircraft: | Lynx MK 8 helicopter |
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HMS Boxer (F92) was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 expended as a target in September 2004.
See HMS Boxer for other ships of the same name.
| Type 22 frigate |
| Broadsword | Battleaxe | Brilliant | Brazen | Boxer | Beaver | Brave | London | Sheffield | Coventry | Cornwall | Cumberland | Campbeltown | Chatham |
| List of frigates of the Royal Navy |