Hms Argyll
Three ships of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS ''Argyll
after the region of
Argyll
in
Scotland
. Her motto is
ne obliviscaris'' (lest we forget). The ship is named
The first
Argyll
was originally named
Bonaventure
and was launched at
Chatham
in
1711
. She was a 50-gun
fourth-rate
frigate
. She was sunk in 1748 as a
breakwater
.
The second
Argyll
was a
Devonshire
-class
armoured cruiser
commissioned in
1905
. She ran aground on the
Bell Rock
near
Dundee
in 1915.
The third and current
Argyll
(F231)
is a
Type 23
Duke
-class
frigate
commissioned in May
1991
. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the
Sierra Leonean
Civil War in
2000
.
References
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