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HMS Brilliant (F90)
HMS ''Brilliant'' was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.
==Royal Navy Service==
''Brilliant'' was part of the Task Force that took part in the Falklands War, with Captain John Coward in command.〔Admiral Sandy Woodward: One Hundred Days, page 364. ISBN 978-0-00-713467-0〕 During the war her two helicopters were involved in unsuccessful attacking the Argentine submarine ''Santa Fe'', and she was the first Royal Navy warship to fire the Sea Wolf missile in action when, on 12 May 1982, she shot down three A-4 Skyhawks. On 21 May HMS ''Brilliant'' came under Argentine air attack outside San Carlos Water and was slightly damaged by cannon fire. On 23 May she joined HMS ''Yarmouth'' in the chase of the Argentinian supply ship ARA ''Monsunen''. She rescued 24 survivors from ''Atlantic Conveyor'' on 25 May. ''Brilliant'' had sailed south with a pair of WE.177A nuclear depth charges on board.〔Lawrence Freedman, The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 2. Page 59. ISBN 978-0-415-41911-6〕 To avoid complications arising from the Treaty of Tlatelolco, these were unloaded to RFA Fort Austin on 16 April 1982.〔(Ministry of Defence ) Page 8. Retrieved 10 March 2009〕
In 1987 she became leader of the 2nd Frigate Squadron. In October 1990 she saw the first members of the Women's Royal Naval Service to serve officially on an operational warship.〔(History of the Women's Royal Naval Service and its integration into the Royal Navy )〕 ''Brilliant'' starred in a BBC documentary series called ''HMS Brilliant - In a Ship's Company'' by the journalist Chris Terrill in 1994, while she was undertaking an operational tour off the coast of former Yugoslavia enforcing a United Nations arms embargo in the Adriatic sea.〔Terrill, Christopher, HMS Brilliant - In a ship's Company, BBC Books, 1995〕
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