HMS Marlborough (F233)
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Missing image HMS_Marlborough.jpg HMS Marlborough (F233) | |
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| Ordered: | September 1986 |
| Laid down: | 27 October 1987 |
| Launched: | 21 January 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 14 June 1991 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Template:Active in service |
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| 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 and Gas) 2 Rolls Royce Spey boost turbines 4 GEC 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: | Two quad Harpoon launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun Two 30 mm guns Two magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers |
| Aircraft: | Lynx HMA8 |
| Motto: | S'en Vat'en Guerre (He Goes to War) |
HMS Marlborough (F233) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
In July 2004, it was announced that Marlborough would be one of three Type 23 ships to be decommissioned by the end of 2006.
In October 2004 Marlborough was dispatched to assist HMCS Chicoutimi which was adrift off the northwest Irish coast and arrived at the scene where RFA Wave Knight and Marlborough's sister-ship HMS Montrose were present. Montrose had been the first ship to make contact with the boat along. Other ships were also dispatched, including RFA Argus.
An interesting fact about the Marlborough is it has an officer from the US Navy permenantly assigned to it.
The 2003 Defence White Paper, entitled Delivering Security in a Changing World committed HMS Marlborough to pay off by March 2006.
See HMS Marlborough for other ships of the same name.
| Type 23 frigate |
| Norfolk | Argyll | Lancaster | Marlborough | Iron Duke | Monmouth | Montrose | Westminster | Northumberland | Richmond | Somerset | Grafton | Sutherland | Kent | Portland | St Albans |
| List of frigates of the Royal Navy |
S'en Vat'en Guerre (He Goes to War)