HMS Argyll

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Argyll after the region of Argyll in Scotland. Her motto is ne obliviscaris (lest we forget).

• The first Argyll was originally named Bonaventure and was launched at Chatham in 1711. She was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate. She was sunk in 1748 as a breakwater.
• The second Argyll was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser commissioned in 1905. She ran aground on the Bell Rock at the head of the Firths of Forth and Tay in 1915.
• The third and current Argyll (F231) is a Type 23 Duke-class frigate commissioned in May 1991. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras, and Opertation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February-August 2005

[edit] References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.