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History
HMS Campbeltown docked in Campbeltown Loch
UK
Name	HMS Campbeltown
Operator	Royal Navy
Laid down	4 December 1985
Launched	7 October 1987
Commissioned	27 May 1989
Motto	list error: <br /> list (help) Victoria Fortes Sequitur "Victory Through Strength"
Fate	Template:Ship fate box active in service
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	list error: <br /> list (help) 2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 × Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising)
Speed	list error: <br /> list (help) 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) maximum
Complement	250 (max. 301)
Armament	list error: <br /> list (help) 1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) 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 carried	list error: <br /> list (help) Lynx Mk.8 helicopters armed with: Sea Skua anti-ships missiles Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes Mk 11 depth charges Machine guns

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Campbeltown.

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 deployed.

The ship's bell of the first HMS Campbeltown, a World War II Town class destroyer famous for its role in the St. Nazaire Raid, has been loaned from Campbelltown, Pennsylvania to the current HMS Campbelltown for he duration of her Royal Navy service.

v t e Type 22 frigates
Royal Navy	Broadsword Battleaxe Brilliant Brazen Boxer Beaver Brave London Sheffield Coventry Cornwall Cumberland Campbeltown Chatham
Brazilian Navy	Greenhalgh (ex-Broadsword) Dodsworth (ex-Brilliant) Bosísio (ex-Brazen) Rademaker (ex-Battleaxe)
Chilean Navy	Almirante Williams (ex-Sheffield)
Romanian Naval Forces	Regele Ferdinand (ex-Coventry) Regina Maria (ex-London)
Preceded by: Type 21 frigates Followed by: Type 23 frigates
List of frigates of the Royal Navy

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