HMS Portland (F79)
 HMS Portland with an Iraqi tanker that has just been boarded during Operation Enduring Freedom |
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| Name: | HMS Portland |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | February 1996 |
| Builder: | Marconi Marine, Clyde |
| Laid down: | 14 January 1998 |
| Launched: | 15 May 1999 |
| Sponsored by: | Lady Heather Brigstocke |
| Commissioned: | 3 May 2001 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
| Motto: | Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour" |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 23 Frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,900 tonnes, standard[1] |
| Length: | 133 m (436 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) |
| Draught: | 7.3 m (23 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion: | CODLAG with four 1510 kW (2,025 shp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators powering two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000 shp) and two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A delivering 23,190 kW (31,100 shp) to two shafts |
| Speed: | 28 knots, HMS Sutherland achieved 34.4 knots during high-speed trials (November 2008) |
| Range: | 14,485 km (9,000 miles) at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 185 |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
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| Armament: |
Anti-air missiles; Anti-ship missiles; Anti-submarine torpedoes; Guns; |
| Aircraft carried: | 1×Lynx HMA8, armed with;
1×Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
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| Aviation facilities: |
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HMS Portland is a Type 23 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name and is the fifteenth and penultimate ship of the 'Duke' class of frigates.
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[edit] Operational history
The ship was accepted into service by the Royal Navy on 15 December 2000 and was commissioned on 3 May the following year. Present at the commissioning ceremony was Portland's sponsor Lady Brigstoke, wife of Admiral Sir John Brigstoke, a former Second Sea Lord, who had also launched the ship in 1999.[2]
During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate.[3]
Portland assisted in the search for men lost from a capsized yacht on 3 February 2007.[4]
She was deployed to the Caribbean for seven months in 2007, intercepting 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in cooperation with a United States Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) and conducting disaster relief in Belize following Hurricane Dean.[5]
In April 2008, Portland visited Liverpool with HMS Mersey and berthed at the cruise liner terminal at Princes Dock.[6]
In June 2009 while taking part in anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa, Portland intercepted ten pirates. However, as they were not caught in the immediate act of piracy the vessel was unable legally to detain them.[7]
In late April 2010, Portland relieved HMS York on the Atlantic Patrol Task (South).[8]
June 2011 saw Portland conducting night Naval Gunnery practice off Gibraltar in the Mediterranean. Towards the end of the month she sailed to Edinburgh to take part in Armed Forces Day.[9] She is to be the first major warship in the Royal Navy to be commanded by a woman; Lt Cdr Sarah West will assume command of HMS Portland in April 2012 as Commander Sarah West.[10]
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[edit] References
- ^ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/The-Fleet/Ships/Frigates
- ^ http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/News/3may012.htm
- ^ http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/type-23-frigates/hms-portland/index.htm
- ^ "Man killed when vessel capsizes". BBC News. 2007-02-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6326795.stm. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
- ^ "HMS Portland in dramatic Atlantic drugs bust". Minstry of Defense. http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/MilitaryOperations/HmsPortlandInDramaticAtlanticDrugsBustvideo.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ "HMS Portland and HMS Mersey to visit Liverpool". Shipping Times. Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20080802032715/http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/itm164_MERSEY.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
- ^ "British Navy stops pirate action". BBC. 4 June 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8084098.stm. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "HMS Portland is off to patrol the Falkland Island seas". this is plymouth. 21 April 2010. http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/defence/HMS-Portland-patrol-Falkland-Island-seas/article-2014017-detail/article.html. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
- ^ http://www.navynews.co.uk/news/1260-from-guy-fawkes-night-to-armed-forces-day-for-hms-portland.aspx
- ^ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-woman-command-navy-warship-133921408.html
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