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See HMS Cornwall for other ships of the name.

Career	RN Ensign
HMS Cornwall
Ordered:
Laid down:	14 December 1983
Launched:	14 October 1985
Commissioned:	23 April 1988
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Template:Ship fate box active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,300 t
Length:	148.1 m (485.9 ft)
Beam:	14.8 m (48.5 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion:	2 x Rolls Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 x Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	250 (max 301)
Armament:	114 mm (4.5 inch) MK 8 gun Goalkeeper close-in weapons system (CIWS) Sea Wolf anti-missile system Two Quad Harpoon missile launchers Two 20 mm Close range guns Two Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat Decoy Launchers Two Magazine launched anti submarine torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	Lynx MK 8 helicopters armed with: Sea Skua anti-ships missiles Stingray anti-submarine torpedoes Mk 11 depth charges Machine guns
Motto:	Latin: unus et omnes (one and all)

The sixth and present HMS Cornwall is the first of the Batch 3 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy.

She was launched in October 1985 and was commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by the ship's sponsor, the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 1993, Cornwall acted as flagship of the Battle of the Atlantic Fleet Review, which ommemorated of the 50th anniversary of the Second Battle of the Atlantic in World War II.

In 2001, Cornwall was part of the Royal Navy Task Force sent to take part in the invasion of Afghanistan. The following year, Cornwall performed a 21-gun salute after a day of events for the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Cornwall was again involved in the "War on Terrorism" in 2003 as part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. She returned to the UK later that year. In early 2004 the ship assumed the task of Fleet Ready Escort, based in Britain. She is the lead ship of the 2nd Frigate Squadron based at HMNB Devonport in Devon, England.

28th January 2006. Cornwall was rededicated in a ceremony at Falmouth attended by the ship's sponsor, Lady Mary Holborow Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

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