HMS Campbeltown at HMNB Devonport in September 2008 |
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Name: | HMS Campbeltown |
Operator: | Royal Navy |
Ordered: | January 1985 |
Builder: | Cammell Laird |
Laid down: | 4 December 1985 |
Launched: | 7 October 1987 |
Commissioned: | 27 May 1989 |
Decommissioned: | 7 April 2011 |
Homeport: | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
Identification: | Pennant number: F86 Deck code: CT International callsign: GABK[1] |
Motto: | Victoria Fortes Sequitur "Victory Through Strength" |
Status: | Awaiting disposal |
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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) |
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2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peace time). Armed with |
HMS Campbeltown was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British 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. She was decommissioned on 7 April 2011.
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Campbeltown's last deployment was a seven month tour from 2007-2008 in the Persian Gulf, where she operated in support of Operation Calash and Operation Telic.[3] In early 2004 the vessel was deployed as part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. HMS Campbeltown entered refit in September 2008.
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 Campbeltown for the duration of her Royal Navy service.[4]
The Royal Navy has announced in March 2011 that the Campbeltown would be decommissioned on 7 April 2011.[5] She paid a final visit to her namesake town of Campbeltown, Argyll in March 2011 where a series of ceremonies, including a town centre parade by the ship's crew took place to commemorate the end of the ship's active service.[6] Campbeltown made her final entrance to Plymouth on 31 March 2011 before decommissioning in a traditional ceremony on 7 April 2011.[7]
The ship's bell has now been returned to Campbelltown, Pennsylvania.[8] The ship's bell made specifically for the latest HMS Campbeltown has been gifted to Campbeltown, Kintyre, to be displayed in the town's museum until a future Campbeltown is commissioned.[9]
Campbeltown was affiliated with a number of military and civic bodies:[10]
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