Chilean Navy Career
In June 2005 it was announced that Norfolk would be sold to the Chilean Navy. She was commissioned into the Chilean Navy on 22 November 2006 as Almirante Cochrane (named after Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald).
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