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The Type 23 Frigate HMS Iron Duke
Career RN Ensign
Ordered: July 1988
Laid down: 12 December 1988
Launched: 2 March 1991
Commissioned: 20 May 1993
Decommissioned:
Fate: Template:Ship fate box active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 4,900 tonnes
Length: 133 m (463 ft)
Beam: 16.1 m (52.9 ft)
Draught: 7.3 m
Propulsion: CODLAG (Combined Diesel-electric and Gas):
2 Rolls-Royce Spey boost turbines
4 GEC Paxman-Valenta diesel engines
2 GEC electric motors
Speed: 28 knots, 15 knots on diesel-electric
Range: 7,800 miles at 15 knots
Complement: 185
Armament: 2 ASuW Harpoon quad launchers
Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles
BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 Oerlikon 30 mm guns
4 Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers
Aircraft: Lynx HMA8
Motto: Virtutis Fortuna Comes (Latin: Fortune is the companion of valour)

HMS Iron Duke (F234) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.

See HMS Iron Duke for other ships of the same name.

Type 23 frigates
 Royal Navy
 Chilean Navy


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