HMS Cornwall (F99)

HMS Cornwall in the Persian Gulf
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Cornwall
Operator:	Royal Navy
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down:	14 December 1983
Launched:	14 October 1985
Sponsored by:	Diana, Princess of Wales
Commissioned:	23 April 1988
Decommissioned:	30 June 2011
Homeport:	HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification:	Pennant number: F99 International callsign: GDLU
Motto:	Unus et omnes "One and all"
Nickname(s):	"The Fighting 99" "Ice cream frigate"
Status:	Scrapped October 2013
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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:	2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 × Rolls Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising) COGAG
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (cruise) 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (maximum)
Complement:	250 (max. 301)
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 1007 navigation radar Type 967 and 968 surveillance radar 2 × Type 911 Sea Wolf tracking radars UAT Electronic Surveillance System Type 2050 active sonar
Armament:	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
Aircraft carried:	2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peace time). Armed with 4 × Sea Skua anti-ships missiles 2 × Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes 2 × Mk 11 depth charges 2 × Machine guns

HMS Cornwall was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the first Batch 3 to be built, and the last to decommission. Cornwall was based at HMNB Devonport in Devon, England, part of the Devonport Flotilla.

She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders and launched by Diana, Princess of Wales at Scotstoun on the River Clyde in October 1985 and commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by the ship's sponsor, Diana, Princess of Wales (who was also the Duchess of Cornwall).

HMS Cornwall had battle honours from Barfleur in 1692, the Falkland Islands in 1914 and the Dardanelles in 1915.

Cornwall undertook duties in the North and South Atlantic Ocean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Caribbean and Baltic seas throughout her time in service, and completed several patrols to the Persian Gulf and deployments to the Far East. In 1996 she served as Flagship of the First Sea Lord in Saint Petersburg, during the 300th anniversary celebrations of the Russian Navy, followed by a period as Flagship of NATO's Standing Naval Force Atlantic. In 2001 she was part of the Royal Navy Task Force engaged in the invasion of Afghanistan. In 2003 she was again committed to Standing Naval Force Atlantic, supporting Operation Active Endeavour in the Mediterranean

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