Chilean frigate Almirante Lynch (PFG-07)

For other ships of the same name, see Chilean ship Almirante Lynch and BAE Morán Valverde.

Career (Chile)
Name:	Almirante Lynch
Namesake:	Patricio Lynch
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down:	December 1971
Launched:	6 December 1972
Commissioned:	25 May 1974
Decommissioned:	4 July 2007
Fate:	Sold to Ecuador, March 2008
Career (Ecuador)
Name:	BAE Morán Valverde (FM-02)
Acquired:	March 2008
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Condell-class frigate
Displacement:	2,500 long tons (2,540 t)
Length:	372 ft (113 m)
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)
Draught:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 shafts, 2 White/English Electric steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers,30,000 hp (22 MW)
Speed:	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range:	4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	250
Sensors and processing systems:	SISDEF Imagen SP 100 CMS Type 184P hull sonar Type 1006 navigation radar Type 965 air-search Elta EL/M-2221GM fire control
Armament:	1 × twin mount 4.5 in (114 mm) gun 4 × Exocet launchers 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 1 x CIWS Vulcan Phalanx 2 × Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	1 × Bell 412 helicopter

Chilean frigate Almirante Lynch (PFG-07) is a Condell-class frigate, the third ship of the Chilean Navy to bear the name.

Her keel was laid down in December 1971, and she was launched on 6 December 1972, completed and delivered to the Chilean Navy on 25 May 1974.

She set sail for Chile after completing a period of training with the Royal Navy, arriving in Valparaíso on 14 February 1975. In active reserve from 14 December 2006, she was decommissioned 4 July 2007.

In March 2008, the Almirante Lynch and sister ship Almirante Condell (PFG-06) were sold to Ecuador. The former Almirante Lynch is in active service under the name BAE Morán Valverde.

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