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HMS Campbeltown (F86)

1989 Type 22 or Broadsword class frigate of the Royal Navy

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	HMS Campbeltown (F86) at HMNB Devonport.jpg
image_caption	HMS Campbeltown at HMNB Devonport in September 2008
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	United Kingdom
flag
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
decommissioned	7 April 2011
homeport	HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
identification	*Pennant number: F86
*International callsign: GABK<ref>{{cite web	url	http://www.rncom.mod.uk/uploadedFiles/RN/Reference_Library/20090227_bridge_card.pdf	title=Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009	accessdate=20 June 2009}}
motto	*Victoria Fortes Sequitur
fate	Scrapped October 2013
badge	[[File:HMS Campbeltown badge.jpg	100px	Ship's badge]]
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	Type 22 frigate
displacement	5,300 tons
length	148.1 m
beam	14.8 m
draught	6.4 m
propulsion	*2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed)
speed	*18 kn (cruise)
complement	250 (max. 301)
* NATO Seagnat decoy launchers<ref>{{Cite web	url	http://website.lineone.net/~david-carrington/Militaria/RoyalNavy/Major.htm	title=Royal Navy Major Surface Vessels	access-date=27 February 2010	archive-date=5 June 2011	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605024100/http://website.lineone.net/~david-carrington/Militaria/RoyalNavy/Major.htm	url-status=dead }}
aircraft	*2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peacetime).

Deck code: CT
International callsign: GABK
"Victory Through Strength"
2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising)
30 kn (max)
2 × Sea Wolf anti air system (Total of 72 Sea Wolf missiles)
2 × quad Harpoon missile launchers (total of 8 Harpoons)
2 × triple Magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes (total of 36 torpedoes)
1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk.8 gun
2 × 20 mm GAM-BO1 guns
1 × Goalkeeper CIWS
NATO Seagnat decoy launchers
1 x Late Entry Guardsman
Armed with
- 4 × Sea Skua anti-ships missiles
- 2 × Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes
- 2 × Mk 11 depth charges
- 2 × Machine guns '*HMS *Campbeltown''''' was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the British Royal Navy. Built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead. She was part of the third batch of Type 22s, which were larger than their predecessors and incorporated advanced close-in weapons after lessons learnt from the 1982 Falklands War. She was decommissioned on 7 April 2011.

History

In August 2001, she visited Arkhangelsk, Russia for the 60th-anniversary of the Arctic Convoys. In company with Russian warships Zadorniy and Alexander Otrakovski. On 28 August 2001, as part of the same goodwill visit, Campbeltown laid a wreath in the Barents Sea close to where Russian submarine Kursk was lost on 12 August 2000.

Campbeltowns last deployment was a seven-month tour from 2007 to 2008 in the Persian Gulf, where she operated in support of Operation Calash, a Counter Piracy and counter smuggling operation within the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and North Indian Ocean and Operation Telic, the security of Iraqi Territorial Seas. 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 , a Second World War famous for her role in the St Nazaire Raid, was loaned from Campbelltown, Pennsylvania to the current Campbeltown for the duration of her Royal Navy service.

Decommissioning

The Royal Navy announced in March 2011 that Campbeltown would be decommissioned on 7 April 2011. She paid a final visit to her namesake town of Campbeltown, Argyll in March 2011 where a series of ceremonies, including a town centre parade by the ship's crew, took place to commemorate the end of the ship's active service. Campbeltown made her final entrance to Plymouth on 31 March 2011 before decommissioning in a traditional ceremony on 7 April 2011. She was laid up at Portsmouth and in July 2013 sold to Turkish company Leyal for demolition. She was towed from Portsmouth to Turkey on 15 Oct 2013, arrived Aliağa on 29 October 2013.

The ship's bell has now been returned to Campbelltown, Pennsylvania. The ship's bell made specifically for the next , a Type 31 frigate, was given to Campbeltown, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and will be displayed in the town's museum until the new ship is commissioned.

Affiliations

Campbeltown was 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

References

"Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009".
"Royal Navy Major Surface Vessels".
[https://www.helis.com/database/unit/775-HMS-Campbeltown Archangel, for 60th-anniversary celebrations at Helis.com]
[http://newsletter.maasmondmaritime.com/pdf/2001/30-08-2001.PDF Kursk wreath-laying ceremony led by the Commanding Officer, Captain Alistair Halliday]
"HMS ''Campbeltown''". Royal Navy Live News.
"HMS ''Campbeltown'' makes final visit to namesake town". UK Ministry of Defence.
(9 March 2011). "HMS Campbeltown". BBC.
(7 April 2011). "Crew of frigate HMS Campbeltown say farewell". BBC.
(26 July 2013). "Royal Navy frigates sold off for scrap for £3m". [[BBC News]].
Breaking News ''[[Ships Monthly]]'' January 2014 page 15
(4 July 2011). "World War II ship bell returns to Campbelltown". pennlive.com.
"HMS ''Campbeltown'' affiliations". Royal Navy Website.

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