HMS Argonaut (F56)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Argonaut.
HMS Argonaut (F56) was a Leander-class frigate that served with the Royal Navy from 1967 to 1993. She took part in the Falklands War in 1982, sustaining damage and casualties in action.
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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 |
General characteristics | |
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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