French frigate La Motte-Picquet (D645)
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| Name: | La Motte-Picquet |
| Builder: | Brest arsenal |
| Laid down: | 12 February 1982 |
| Launched: | 6 February 1985 |
| Commissioned: | 18 February 1988 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015[update] |
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| Class & type: | Georges Leygues-class frigate |
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| Length: | 139 m (456 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Height: | 39.36 m (129 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
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La Motte-Picquet is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. As of January 2012[update] she is serving in the Persian Gulf.
On 22 August 2007, she took custody of the Danish freighter Danica White which had been captured by pirates on the 3 June.
2011/12 tour[edit]
She left Brest on 9 November 2011 for active duty in the Indian Ocean and was refuelled by the US replenishment ship USNS Patuxent on 10 January 2012.[1] On 22 January she passed through the Straits of Hormuz with the British frigate HMS Argyll (F231) and a US battlegroup centred on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72).[2]
Gallery[edit]
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The F70 type frigates are equipped with a Variable Depth Sonar type DUBV43 or DUBV43C.
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Gunnery crew of the Motte-Picquet frigate, in front of the Crotale anti-air missile launcher
References[edit]
- Frégate La Motte-Picquet on netmarine.net
- ^ "Un pétrolier américain ravitaille la frégate La Motte-Picquet". French Ministry of Defence. 11 January 2012.
- ^ Stringer, David (24 January 2012). "UK could send more navy assets to Strait of Hormuz". Associated Press.
External links[edit]
Media related to La Motte-Picquet (D645) at Wikimedia Commons
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