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HMS Iron Duke (F234)
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 HMS Iron Duke (F234) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Iron Duke |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | July 1988 |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 12 December 1988 |
| Launched: | 2 March 1991 |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1993 |
| Motto: | Virtutis Fortuna Comes "Fortune is the companion of valour" |
| 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 |
HMS Iron Duke (F234) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy, and the third ship to bear the name. Iron Duke was launched on 2 March 1991 by Lady Jane King. Her home town is Kingston-upon-Hull, and she is named after the Duke of Wellington (the "Iron Duke").
The motto of HMS Iron Duke is Virtutis Fortuna Comes (latin: "Fortune is the companion of valour") - inherited from the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot.
- His Grace, The Duke of Wellington
- The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)
- No. 31 Squadron RAF
- City of Kingston upon Hull
- Worshipful Company of Founders
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