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| Career | RN Ensign |
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| Ordered: | September 1986 |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1987 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 31 May 1991 |
| 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: | 7.3 m |
| Propulsion: | CODLAG (Combined Diesel-eLectric And Gas) 2 Rolls-Royce Spey boost gas-turbines 4 Paxman Valenta diesel engines 2 GEC electric motors |
| Speed: | 28 knots, 15 knots on diesel-electric |
| Range: | 7,800 miles at 15 knots |
| 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: | Ne Obliviscaris (Lest We Forget) |
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The third and current HMS Argyll (F231) is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate. She was laid down in March 1987 by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Glasgow, and launched in 1989 by Lady Lady Wendy Levene and commissioned in May 1991. Agryll is currently part of the 6th Frigate Squadron based at Devonport Dockyard.
In 2001, Argyll was part of the Royal Navy task force — comprising Illustrious, Ocean, Iron Duke, Chatham, and four RFA ships — that deployed to Sierra Leone, during the civil war there in 2000. Argyll, during those operations, acted as the West African Guardship and remained off West Africa until September 2000. During her deployment, Argyll saved fifty eight lives from drowning. She was relieved by her sister-ship Iron Duke in September.
In 2001, while in the Bay of Biscay, Argyll suffered an electrical fire. Thankfullly the fire was quickly put out by the ship's damage control team, with the ship suffering only minimal damage.
Argyll is currently undergoing Sea Training to prepare for her re-entry back into the fleet, after her second 'Docking Period' in early 2003, in which removing, renewing and fitting new equipment and maintenance was done.
Argyll succesfully completed a six-month deployment to the Arabian Gulf protecting two oil platforms, working with the American, Australian and Iraqi Navy from February to August in 2005. The current ships programme is a small visit to Boulogne then to the home port of Inverary and finally to Liverpool before undergoing Operational Sea Trials.
See HMS Argyll for other ships of the name.
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