HMS Campbeltown (F86)
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 HMS Campbeltown docked in Campbeltown Loch |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Campbeltown |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1985 |
| Launched: | 7 October 1987 |
| Commissioned: | 27 May 1989 |
| Motto: | Victoria Fortes Sequitur "Victory Through Strength" |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 5,300 tons |
| Length: | 148.1 m (486 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 × Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) maximum |
| Complement: | 250 (max. 301) |
| Armament: | 1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk.8 gun Goalkeeper CIWS Sea Wolf anti-missile system 2 × Quad Harpoon missile launchers 2 × 20 mm Close range guns NATO Seagnat Decoy Launchers |
| Aircraft carried: |
Lynx Mk.8 helicopters Sea Skua anti-ships missiles Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes Mk 11 depth charges Machine guns |
HMS Campbeltown (F86) is a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd. in Birkenhead, she was part of the third batch of Type 22s, which were considerably larger than their predecessors and incorporated more advanced weaponry after lessons learnt from the Falklands War.
Her most recent deployment was for seven months from 2007-2008 in the Persian Gulf, where she operated in support of Operation Calash and Operation Telic.[1] In early 2004 the vessel was deployed as part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic.
The ship's bell of the first HMS Campbeltown, a Second World War Town class destroyer famous for her role in the St. Nazaire Raid, has been loaned from Campbelltown, Pennsylvania to the current HMS Campbeltown for the duration of her Royal Navy service.[2]
[edit] Affiliations
- Welsh Guards
- J Battery, 3 Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
- No. 24 Squadron RAF
- Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers
- Campbeltown, Argyll
- Campbelltown, Pennsylvania
[edit] External Links
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ HMS Campbeltown. Royal Navy Live News. Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
- ^ HMS Campbeltown. UK Ministry of Defence. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
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