HMS ''Brazen'' was a

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of the

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. She was completed three months ahead of schedule due to the

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Royal Navy service

''Brazen'' served on the Armilla Patrol which became a task force during the

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as part of Operation Granby. For this she received the

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"Kuwait 1991". On 24 January 1991, ''Brazen'' would screen the British Casualty Receiving ship when a pair of Iraqi Mirage F1 aircraft made a run for the vessel, armed with AM39 Exocet

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s. The Iraqi aircraft were shot down by Saudi F-15C fighter aircraft before they could fire their anti-ship missiles. During the war, her

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helicopter attacked fast

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s. Following a patrol in the South Atlantic ''Brazen'' ran aground in the Patagonian Canal on 11 September 1994. The ship was refloated four days later and taken to

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for repairs, which lasted a month. She then returned to the UK under her own power for reinstatement of combat system equipment damaged in the incident at Devonport royal dockyard. By late 1995, ''Brazen'' was back in active service, operating in the

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as part of a Royal Navy task group led by the

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for

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. In early 1996, ''Brazen'' rescued 30 Albanians from a sinking vessel. In May 1996, she returned to Devonport for the final time before being officially handed over to the

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in August 1996.

Brazilian service

She was purchased from the

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by the Brazilian Navy on 18 November 1994, and renamed ''Bosísio''. The ship was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy on 30 August 1996. In June 2009, ''Bosísio'' participated in the recovery mission for the wreckage of

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. She was decommissioned from Brazilian Navy service on 23 September 2015. The ship was sunk as a target in July 2017 during the Brazilian Navy operation 'MISSILEX 2017'.
Poder Naval OnLine. Retrieved 1 de agosto de 2017.

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