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Motto: HMS Diomede (F16) was a Leander class frigate frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
In 1974, Diomede, took part in Task Group (TG) 317.2 which was a deployment that caused some controversy back in the United Kingdom when the TG, on its way to the Far East/Pacific, visited South Africa, which was at that time under apartheid rule, as-well as performing military exercises with the South African armed forces.
In 1988, Diomede was decommissioned from the Royal Navy and subsequently sold to Pakistan where she was renamed Shamsher See HMS Diomede for other ships of the name.
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HMS Aurora (F10) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
HMS Leander (F109) was the nameship of the Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
HMS Penelope was launched on the 17th August 1962 and commissioned on the 31st October 1963.
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 HMS Diomede (F16) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow.
Her modernisation that would have given her Exocet and SeaWolf was cancelled due to John Knot's 1981 Defence Review and she was intended to be placed in the Standby Squadron but the decision was repealed due to the 1982 Falklands War.
HMS Diomede for other ships of this name.
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} '''HMS ''Diomede'' (F16)''' was a Leander class frigate ''Leander''-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
''Diomede'', along with the nuclear submarine HMS Warspite (S103) ''Warspite'', visited the port of Simonstown while the rest of the TG visisted Cape Town.
In 1977, ''Diomede'', along with others of the Leander-class, was present in the, so far, last Fleet Review of the RN, in celebration of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom HM the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
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The construction programme was also the last to incorporate Royal Dockyards: HMS Andromeda was the last warship built at Portsmouth Dockyard and HMS Scylla the last built at Devonport Dockyard.
In 1982 she sailed with HMS Illustrious and Battleaxe to the Falklands to relieve Invincible and her escorts after the war had ended.
Diomede’s Seawolf conversion was cancelled under the 1981 Defence Review and she was scheduled to enter the Standby Squadron at Chatham.
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She was then followed by a further 25 vessels through the ensuing years, until March 1973 when the final ship, HMS Ariadne, was commisioned.
These last four ships were HMS Achilles (F12), HMS Diomede (F16), HMS Apollo (F70), and HMS Ariadne (F72).
Apollo was commisioned in June 1972, and was sold to Pakistan in 1988, where she recommisioned as Zulfiquar.
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HMS Prince of Wales lost in action in December 1941.
The only one of her type built, HMS Bristol was commissioned in 1973 and withdrawn from service in 1991.
HMS Invincible was 'mothballed' in 2005, pending the construction of two new carriers for the Navy.
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 Diomede: Hms diomede - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Videografica / raffaele diomede / diomede / multimedia web
Diomede The Native Village of Diomede Tribal website sponsored by Kawerak, Inc. The islands were named in 1728 by Vitus Bering in honor of Saint Diomede.
Diomede HMS Diomede (F16) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
Diomede diomede - raffaele diomede, free lance pordenone: pubblicità e comunicazione.
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The device on the rear of the mainmast angled to port is a light guidance system for the helicopter.
HMS Dido, the third Leander Class, laid down as the Hastings.
Like the Rothesay class the gun is a twin Vickers semi-automatic 4.5" Mk6 dual purpose gun directed by the MRS-3 system which includes the Mod-0 director on the bridge roof.
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 Leander History
If you have any information on HMS Minerva or the Leander class in general then please add it to our datalogger guestbook fro HMS Minerva - we'll use it to build as complete a picture of her as possible.
Above: HMS Scylla (F71) armed with Exocet and Seawolf missiles.
Replaced Phoebe as the warship HMS Hero in the television series ‘Warship’ and adopted Phoebe’s pennant number for continuity.
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 HMS Diomede F16 - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Also that year, ''Diomede'' joined the 3rd_Frigate_Squadron which was then based in the Far_East.
In ''Warspite'', visited the port of Simonstown while the rest of the TG visisted Cape_Town.
During that year, ''Diomede'' went to sunnier climes when she deployed to the Persian_Gulf on patrol.
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 Broad Beam leander frigates
The Broadbeamed Group of Leander frigates HMS Andromeda, Hermione, Jupiter, Scylla, Charybdis, Achilles, Ariadne, Diomede and HMS Apollo were designed with a view for increasing their life span for future modifications an extra 2 feet were added to the beam which increased stability and endurance with a slight reduction in speed.
It was planned that between 1977 and 1984 all the Broad beamed class Frigates would undergo modernisation, with HMS Andromeda being the first in 1977 and being completed in 1980.
HMS Scylla, stripped ready for use as a target.
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 HMS Diomede (F16)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Diomede returned to the UK in June 1975 The following year, Diomede joined the Fishery Protection Squadron, and took part in the Third Cod War.
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 HMS Diomede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Diomede:
HMS Diomede (1781), a fourth-rate ship of the line completed in 1781, and broken up in 1815
HMS Diomede (1919), a Danae class light cruiser which captured a German surface raider in World War II HMS Diomede (F16), launched in 1969, was a Leander class frigate which took part in the Second and Third Cod Wars
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