HMS Campbeltown (F86)

HMS Campbeltown at HMNB Devonport in September 2008
History
United Kingdom
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 Deck code: CT IMO number: 4907139 International callsign: GABK[1]
Motto	Victoria Fortes Sequitur "Victory Through Strength"
Fate	Scrapped October 2013
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General characteristics
Class and type	Type 22 frigate
Displacement	5,300 tons
Length	148.1 m (485 ft 11 in)
Beam	14.8 m (48 ft 7 in)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising)
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (cruise) 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (max)
Complement	250 (max. 301)
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[2]
Aircraft carried	2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peacetime). 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 Shipbuilders Ltd. 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.