HMS Campbeltown (F86)

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HMS Campbeltown docked in Campbeltown Loch, by Malcolm McFadyen
Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 4 December 1985
Launched: 7 October 1987
Commissioned: 27 May 1989
Decommissioned:
Fate: Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5300 t
Length: 148.1 m
Beam: 14.8 m
Draught:
Propulsion: 2 x Rolls Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed)

2 x Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising)

Speed: cruise: 18 knots (33 km/h)
max: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement: 250 (max 301)
Armament: 114mm (4.5 inch) 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: Lynx MK 8 helicopters

armed with:
Sea Skua anti-ships missiles
Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes
Mk 11 depth charges
Machine guns

Motto: Victoria Fortes Sequitur (Latin:"Victory Through Strength")

HMS Campbeltown (F86) is a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.

In early 2004 the vessel was deployed as part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. Currently in use for Initial Sea Training.

See HMS Campbeltown for other ships of the same name.


Type 22 frigate
Royal Navy
Broadsword | Battleaxe | Brilliant | Brazen | Boxer | Beaver | Brave | London | Sheffield | Coventry | Cornwall | Cumberland | Campbeltown | Chatham
Brazilian Navy
Greenhalgh | Bosisio | Dodsworth | Rademaker
Romanian Navy
Regina Maria | Regele Ferdinand
Chilean Navy
Almirante Williams

List of frigates of the Royal Navy

See also


http://youtube.com/watch?v=DerD7RNMbDQ&search=royal%20army an infamous version of queen's Bohemian Rhapsody filmed abord the cambletown