HMS Argonaut (F56)
HMS Argonaut in 1985
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| Name: | HMS Argonaut |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down: | 27 November 1964 |
| Launched: | 8 February 1966 |
| Commissioned: | 17 August 1967 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1993 |
| Identification: | Pennant number F56 |
| Honours and awards: |
Falklands War |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1995 |
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| Class and type: | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
| Length: | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
| Beam: | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
| Speed: | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 223 |
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HMS Argonaut (F56) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company of Hebburn. She was launched on 8 February 1966 and commissioned on 17 August 1967. On 31 March 1993, Argonaut was decommissioned. She was broken up a few years later.
In her first year, Argonaut escorted the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary on her final voyage to the United States where Queen Mary would then become a hotel and museum ship.
In 1968 "Argonaut" joins NATO (STANAVFORLANT)
In 1969 Argonaut, like many other Royal Navy vessels, took part in the long-running Beira Patrol, a United Nations operation that was designed to prevent oil reaching Rhodesia via the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, due to Rhodesia having declared unilateral independence under the rule of Prime Minister Ian Smith in 1965, a move that was widely condemned across the world. During 1969 11 month deployment "Argonaut" circumnavigated the globe, visiting many countries and conducting a famine mercy mission to FIJI(SUVA)
In 1973, Argonaut recommissioned, completed a six-week 'work up' at Portland visited Brest, France and completed a stint as Gibraltar guard ship. Also, following Iceland's declaration of a 200-mile fishing limit, Argonaut carried out fishery protection duties for British fishing trawlers inside that area, in what became known as the Second Cod War.
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