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HMS Campbeltown berthed in Campbeltown Loch
History
UK
Name	HMS Campbeltown
Operator	Royal Navy
Laid down	4 December 1985
Launched	7 October 1987
Commissioned	27 May 1989
Homeport	HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification	list error: <br /> list (help) Pennant number: F86 Deck code: CT International callsign: GABK
Motto	list error: <br /> list (help) Victoria Fortes Sequitur "Victory Through Strength"
Status	in active service
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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	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 GAM-BO1 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

HMS Campbeltown (F86) is a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd. in Birkenhead, she was part of the third batch of Type 22s, which were considerably larger than their predecessors and incorporated more advanced weaponry after lessons learnt from the Falklands War.

History

Her most recent deployment was for seven months from 2007-2008 in the Persian Gulf, where she operated in support of Operation Calash and Operation Telic. In early 2004 the vessel was deployed as part of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. HMS Campbeltown entered refit in September 2008.

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

Affiliations

Campbeltown is affiliated with a number of military and civic bodies:

• J Battery, 3 Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery
• No. 24 Squadron RAF
• Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers
• Campbeltown, Argyll
• Campbelltown, Pennsylvania
• Springbank Distillery, Campbeltown, Argyll
• Birmingham Nautical Club
• TS Campbeltown
• Bridgewater Sea Cadet Corps
• Royal Marine Cadet Corps, Bradfield College, Reading
• CCF Naval Section, Gordon's School, Woking

External links

• A version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" filmed aboard the HMS Campbeltown

Footnotes

1. "Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-20.
2. "HMS Campbeltown". Royal Navy Live News. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
3. "HMS Campbeltown". UK Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
4. "HMS Campbeltown affiliations - Royal Navy Website". Retrieved 2009-06-20.

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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Aircraft carriers	Queen Elizabeth class Queen Elizabeth Prince of Wales
Submarines	Vanguard class Vanguard Victorious Vigilant Vengeance Trafalgar class Triumph Astute class Astute Ambush Artful Audacious Anson
Destroyers	Type 45 Daring Dauntless Diamond Dragon Defender Duncan
Frigates	Type 23 Argyll Lancaster Iron Duke Westminster Richmond Somerset Sutherland Kent Portland St Albans
Amphibious warfare ships	Albion-class LPD Albion Bulwark
Mine counter measures vessels	Sandown class Penzance Pembroke Bangor Hunt class Ledbury Cattistock Brocklesby Middleton Chiddingfold Hurworth
Patrol vessels	Ice patrol vessel Protector River class Severn Tyne Mersey Forth Medway Trent Tamar Spey Archer class Archer Biter Smiter Blazer Puncher Charger Ranger Trumpeter Express Example Explorer Exploit Tracker Raider Pursuer Dasher Cutlass class Cutlass Dagger
Survey vessels	Ocean survey vessel Scott Survey launch Magpie
Miscellaneous	Ship of the line Victory (flagship of the First Sea Lord)

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