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Career	RN Ensign
HMS Kent (F78)
Ordered:	February 1996
Laid down:	16 April 1997
Launched:	27 May 1998
Commissioned:	8 June 2000
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:
Propulsion:	CODLAG (Combined Diesel and Gas): 2 Rolls-Royce Spey boost turbines 4 Paxman Valenta diesel engines 2 GEC electric motors
Speed:
Range:
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:	Invicta

File:Kentcrest.gif

Crest of the HMS Kent

The twelveth ship to bear the name HMS Kent, she is a Type 23 "Duke" class frigate of the British Royal Navy.

The HMS Kent lineage boasts sixteen Battle Honours from the 3 given to the first Kent of 46 guns built in 1653 to the 5 awarded to the ninth and tenth Kents of World War I and World War II.

See HMS Kent for other ships of the great name.

Sponsored by HRH Princess Alexandra, the HMS Kent was launched on 28 May 1998.

Built by BAE Systems Marine (formerly Marconi Marine) at Scotstoun in Scotland, she was commissioned on 8 June 2000 and is currently based in Portsmouth under the command of Commander Gavin Pritchard.

External link

Royal Navy website of the HMS Kent (F78)

v t e Type 23 frigates
Royal Navy	Norfolk Marlborough Argyll† Lancaster† Iron Duke† Monmouth† Westminster# Northumberland# Montrose† Richmond# Somerset# Grafton Sutherland# Kent# Portland# St Albans#
Chilean Navy	Almirante Cochrane (ex-Norfolk) Almirante Condell (ex-Marlborough) Almirante Lynch (ex-Grafton)
Preceded by: Type 22 frigate Followed by: Type 26 frigate (ASW) / Type 31 frigate (GP)
# = Fitted with towed array sonar for ASW operations † = General purpose ship without towed array sonar List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy

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Type 23 frigates