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Hms Cornwall (F99) | colspan="2"| | | tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|RN Ensign | | rdered: | | | aid down: | 14 December 1983 | | aunched: | 14 October 1985 | | ommissioned: | 23 April 1988 | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 5,300 t | | ength: | 148.1 m (485.9 ft) | | eam: | 14.8 m (48.5 ft) | | raught: | | | ropulsion: | | | peed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) | | ange: | | | omplement: | 250 (max 301) | | rmament: | 114 mm (4.5 inch) MK 8 gun
Goalkeeper close-in weapons system (CIWS)
Sea Wolf anti-missile system
Two Quad Harpoon missile launchers
Two 20 mm Close range guns
Two Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes
NATO Seagnat Decoy Launchers
Two Magazine launched anti submarine torpedo tubes | | ircraft: | Lynx MK 8 helicopters
armed with:
Sea Skua anti-ships missiles
Stingray anti-submarine torpedoes
Mk 11 depth charges
Machine guns
| | otto: | Latin: unus et omnes (one and all) | The sixth and present HMS ''Cornwall is the first of the Batch 3 Type 22 frigates. She is a much larger warship than the original Broadsword'' (Batch 1) class. She was launched in October 1985 and was commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by the ship's sponsor, the late Diana, Princess of Wales. In 1993, Cornwall acted as flagship of the Battle of the Atlantic Fleet Review, which was a commemoration of the Second Battle of the Atlantic which was fought from 1939 to 1945 during World War II. In 2001, Cornwall was part of the British Task Force that was part of Britain's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan. In 2002, during the Queen's Golden Jubilee, Cornwall performed a 21-gun salute, after a day of events involving the armed forces of Britain, in honour of Her Majesty The Queen. In 2003, Cornwall was involved in the War on Terrorism as part of Standing Naval Force Atlantic. She returned to Britain later that year. In early 2004 the ship assumed the task of being Fleet Ready Escort. She is the lead ship of the 2nd Frigate Squadron based at Devonport Dockyard, the largest naval base in Western Europe. See HMS Cornwall for other ships of the name. Cornwall
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