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 Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Dumbarton Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Castle class has taken it in turns to rotate duties around the Falklands – three years in the South Atlantic, three years based in the UK – for the past two decades.
Although the core of Dumbarton Castle’s time is spent around the Falklands, she pays regular visits to the more remote dependency of South Georgia (about twice every three months) and occasional ones to the South Sandwich Islands.
As ‘Falklands guardship’ – as she’s commonly referred to – it is Dumbarton Castle’s duty to protect the islands and the UK’s territorial waters, including fishery stocks, oil and gas installations, to a 200-mile limit.
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 Patrol Craft
HMS Shalford (P3101) was a Ford Class Seaward Defence Boat, constructed 1951 - 1957.
In 1977 she was returned to her previous owner, when HMS Jersey was commissioned.
HMS Dumbarton Castle, passing under the Forth Rail Bridge.
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 Royal Navy
Full command of all deployable fleet units, including the Royal Marines and the Fleet Auxiliary, is delegated to Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET), with a Command Headquarters at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth and an Operational Headquarters at Northwood, Middlesex, co-located with the Permanent Joint Headquarters and a NATO Regional Command, Allied Maritime Component Command Northwood.
He was also the main force behind the development of HMS Dreadnought, the first all-big-gun ship and one of the most influential ships in naval history.
The Royal Navy also took part in the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the Afghanistan Campaign, and the 2003 Iraq War, the last of which saw RN warships bombard positions in support of the Al Faw Peninsula landings by Royal Marines.
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Veteran assault ship HMS Fearless (L10) completed her final deployment today after 37 years of service with the Royal Navy.
Draped in her long, white decommissioning pennant and with the band of the Royal Marines playing on her flight deck, she was led by the offshore patrol vessel HMS Dumbarton Castle (P265) and by the tugs RMAS Powerful and RMAS Bustler.
Above: One of the last pictures of HMS Fearless in active Royal Navy service, taken in Barcelona on March 9th 2002.
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 Castle Class Patrol Vessels
The Castle Class were designed as purpose built Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) to either relegate the aging Ton Class vessels to coastal waters or replace them altogether.
, both Castle Class vessels- Leeds Castle and Dumbarton Castle- were build in Aberdeen by Hall Russell.
During the Falklands Campaign (1982) they served as dispatch vessels and in recent years they have alternated the role of Falkland Islands Guardship, spending long periods of time (up to three years) in the South Atlantic, with their crews rotating every four months.
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The most notable being HMS Pickle, the former Bermudian merchantman that carried news of victory back from Trafalgar.
The most important post-war operation conducted solely by the Royal Navy was the defeat in 1982 of Argentina in the Falkland Islands War.
Commissioned (surface) ships of the Royal Navy are accorded the prefix HMS which stands for Her Majesty's Ship (alternatively, His Majesty's Ship), for example HMS Ark Royal.
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 History of the Falklands War
Smaller ships in the fleet were The Castle Class Patrol Boats HMS Leeds castle P258 and HMS Dumbarton Castle P265, HMS Endurance the Ice Patrol Ship under the command of Captain Barker.
HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
HMS Argonaut lies at anchor to her starboard with HMS Antrim in the extreme distance.
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