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HMS Argyll (F231)
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| Name: | HMS Argyll |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | September 1986 |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1987 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 31 May 1991 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Devonport |
| Motto: | Ne Obliviscaris "Lest We Forget" |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 'Duke' Class Type 23 frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,900 tonnes |
| Length: | 133 m (463 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion: | CODLAG (Combined Diesel-eLectric And Gas) 2 × Rolls-Royce Spey boost gas-turbines 4 × Paxman Valenta diesel engines 2 × GEC electric motors |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h) 15 knots (28 km/h) on diesel-electric |
| Range: | 7,800 nautical miles (14,400 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 185 |
| Armament: | 2 × ASuW Harpoon quad launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles 1 × BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns 4 × Sting Ray torpedo tubes Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Lynx HMA8 |
The third and current HMS Argyll (F231) is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate. She was laid down in March 1987 by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Glasgow, launched in 1989 by Lady Wendy Levene, and commissioned in May 1991. Argyll is currently part of the 6th Frigate Squadron based at Devonport Dockyard.
The Commanding Officer of Argyll is Commander Gavin Pritchard RN who succeeded the previous Captain in September 2007.
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In 2000, Argyll was part of the Royal Navy task force — comprising Illustrious, Ocean, Iron Duke, Chatham, and four RFA ships — that deployed to Sierra Leone during the civil war there. During those operations, Argyll acted as the West African Guardship and remained off West Africa until September 2000. During her deployment, Argyll saved fifty-eight lives from drowning. She was relieved by her sister-ship Iron Duke in September.
In 2001, while in the Bay of Biscay, Argyll suffered an electrical fire. Thankfully the fire was quickly put out by the ship's damage control team, with the ship suffering only minimal damage.
Argyll completed a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf protecting two oil platforms, working with the American, Australian and Iraqi Navies from February to August 2005. The ship made a short visit to Boulogne, then to its home port of Inverary and finally to Liverpool [1], before undergoing Operational Sea Trials. Argyll successfully completed Operational Sea Training and was acted as a contingency platform whilst H.M. Elizabeth II spent a week sailing on the Hebridean Princess in July 2006.
In September 2006 Argyll was deployed along with other ships such as Ocean and Albion where she completed two drugs raids on merchant ships totalling £50 million. They completed their operation in November of the same year.
In October 2007 Argyll returned to the Persian Gulf to take over from her sister-ship, HMS Richmond.[1]
- His Grace, The Duke of Argyll
- The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
- No. 47 Squadron RAF
- Argyll and Bute District Council
- City of Glasgow
- Worshipful Company of Paviors
- Plymouth Argyle F.C.
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