HMS Cornwall in the Persian Gulf |
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| Name: | HMS Cornwall |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 14 December 1983 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1985 |
| Sponsored by: | Diana, Princess of Wales |
| Commissioned: | 23 April 1988 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 June 2011[1] |
| Homeport: | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
| Identification: | Pennant number: F99 International callsign: GDLU[2] |
| Motto: | Unus et omnes "One and all" |
| Nickname: | "The Fighting 99" "Ice cream frigate"[1] |
| Status: | Decommissioned |
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| 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) COGAG |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) maximum |
| Complement: | 250 (max. 301) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 1007 navigation radar Type 967 and 968 surveillance radar 2 × Type 911 Sea Wolf tracking radars UAT Electronic Surveillance System Type 2050 active sonar |
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| Aircraft carried: |
2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peace time). Armed with |
The sixth HMS Cornwall was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was the first Batch 3 to be built, and the last to decommission. Cornwall was based at HMNB Devonport in Devon, England, part of the Devonport Flotilla.
She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders and launched by Diana Princess of Wales at Scotstoun on the Clyde in October 1985 and commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by the ship's sponsor, Diana, Princess of Wales (who was also the Duchess of Cornwall).
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HMS Cornwall has battle honours from Barfleur in 1692, the Falkland Islands in 1914 and the Dardanelles in 1915.
Throughout her life Cornwall has undertaken duties in the North and South Atlantic Ocean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and Baltic seas, has completed several patrols to the Persian Gulf and deployed to the far east. In 1996 she served as Flagship of the First Sea Lord in St Petersburg, during the 300th anniversary celebrations of the Russian Navy, followed by a period as Flagship of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. In 2001 she was part of the Royal Navy Task Force engaged in the invasion of Afghanistan. In 2003 she was again committed to Standing Naval Force Atlantic, supporting Operation Active Endeavour in the Mediterranean
Following the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997 the role of sponsor was assumed by Mary Holborow, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
Ceremonial activities have included acting as flagship for the Battle of the Atlantic Fleet Review in 1993, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Second Battle of the Atlantic, and in 2002 delivering a 21-gun salute as part of celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
On 28 January 2006 Cornwall was rededicated, following a period of docked maintenance, in a ceremony at Falmouth attended by Lady Mary Holborow.
In February 2011, while operating in the Gulf of Aden as part of the Combined Maritime Forces, boarding teams from HMS Cornwall participated in the rescue of five Yemeni fishermen and the capture of 17 Somali pirates from a fishing dhow, which had been seized by pirates on November 11, 2010.[4]
On 27 February 2011, while stationed in Dubai a Royal Navy sailor serving aboard HMS Cornwall was killed in a road accident in Dubai.
On 26 April 2011 she returned to Plymouth for the last time, and decommissioned on 30 June 2011.[5]. Her decommissioning pennant was presented to the Davidstow Airfield and Cornwall at War Museum on 5 October 2011.
On 23 March 2007, fifteen sailors and Royal Marines from HMS Cornwall were detained by elements of the Navy of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution following a routine search of a vessel suspected of smuggling, in the vicinity of disputed territorial waters.[6]
Cornwall is affiliated with a number of military and civilian organisations and bodies:[7]
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