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Name | HMS Campbeltown |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | January 1985 |
Builder | Cammell Laird |
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
Footnotes
- "Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-06-20.
- "HMS Campbeltown". Royal Navy Live News. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- "HMS Campbeltown". UK Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 2007-03-26.
- "HMS Campbeltown affiliations - Royal Navy Website". Retrieved 2009-06-20.
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