HMS Portland (F79)
HMS Portland (F79)
HMS Portland with an Iraqi tanker that has just been boarded during Operation Enduring Freedom
Career (UK)
Name: Operator: Ordered: Builder: Laid down: Launched: Sponsored by: Commissioned: Homeport: Motto: Status: Badge: HMS Portland Royal Navy February 1996 Marconi Marine, Clyde 14 January 1998 15 May 1999 Lady Heather Brigstocke 3 May 2001 HMNB Devonport, Plymouth Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour" in active service, as of 2013[1]
General characteristics
Class & type: Displacement: Length: Beam: Draught: Propulsion: Type 23 Frigate 4,900 tonnes, standard 133 m (436 ft 4 in) 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) 7.3 m (23 ft 9 in) CODLAG with four 1510 kW (2,025 shp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators powering two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000 shp) and two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A delivering 23,190kW (31,100 shp) to two shafts 28 knots 14,485 km (9,000 miles) at 15 knots 185 Sonar 2087, Type 996 radar
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Speed: Range: Complement: Sensors and processing systems:
HMS Portland (F79)
Electronic warfare & decoys: Armament:
4 x 6-barrel Seagnat decoy launchers DFL2/3 offboard decoys
Anti-air missiles:
1 32-cell Sea Wolf GWS.26 VLS canisters for 32 Sea Wolf missiles (range 1-10km) 2 quad Harpoon launchers 2 Twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes 1 BAE 4.5 inch Mk8 gun 2 30mm DS30M automated guns, or, 2 30mm DS30B guns 2 Miniguns 4 General-purpose machine guns
Anti-ship missiles:
Anti-submarine torpedoes:
Guns:
Aircraft carried:
1Lynx HMA8, armed with;
4 Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or 2 anti submarine torpedoes
or 1Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
4 anti submarine torpedoes Flight deck Enclosed hangar
Aviation facilities:
HMS Portland is a Type 23 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name and is the fifteenth and penultimate ship of the 'Duke' class of frigates.
Operational history
The ship was accepted into service by the Royal Navy on 15 December 2000 and was commissioned on 3 May the following year. Present at the commissioning ceremony was Portland's sponsor Lady Brigstoke, wife of Admiral Sir John Brigstoke, a former Second Sea Lord, who had also launched the ship in 1999.[3] During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time.[4] Portland assisted in the search for men lost from a capsized yacht on 3 February 2007.[5] She was deployed to the Caribbean for seven months in 2007, intercepting 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in cooperation with a United States Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) and conducting disaster relief in Belize following Hurricane Dean.[6]
Portland in Plymouth Naval Base, 2010
In April 2008, Portland visited Liverpool with HMS Mersey and berthed at the cruise liner terminal at Princes Dock.[7] In June 2009 while taking part in anti-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa, Portland intercepted ten pirates. However, as they were not caught in the immediate act of piracy the vessel was unable legally to detain them.[8] In late April 2010, Portland relieved HMS York on the Atlantic Patrol Task (South).[9] June 2011 saw Portland conducting night Naval Gunnery practice off Gibraltar in the Mediterranean. Towards the end of the month she sailed to Edinburgh to take part in Armed Forces Day.[10] She is the first major warship in the Royal Navy to be commanded by a woman; Lieutenant-Commander Sarah West assumed command of HMS
HMS Portland (F79) Portland on 21 May 2012.[11] Portland spent 2012 at Rosyth in a 50-week refit that saw her upgraded with Sonar 2087, new IT systems, Sea Wolf mid-life overhaul, gun replacements, galley refurbishment and accommodation improvements. She left Rosyth on 14 December 2012 for three months of sea trials.[12][13] In August 2013, she was announced as the Fleet Ready Escort for the next two months.[14]
Affiliations
Irish Guards The Royal Wessex Yeomanry Worshipful Company of Scriveners Dorset Chamber of Commerce
References
RN website - HMS Portland (accessed 15 December 2006) [15]
[1] [2] [3] [4] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=HMS_Portland_(F79)& action=edit http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ The-Fleet/ Ships/ Frigates http:/ / www. btinternet. com/ ~warship/ News/ 3may012. htm http:/ / www. royal-navy. mod. uk/ operations-and-support/ surface-fleet/ type-23-frigates/ hms-portland/ index. htm
[10] http:/ / www. navynews. co. uk/ news/ 1260-from-guy-fawkes-night-to-armed-forces-day-for-hms-portland. aspx [14] http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ News-and-Events/ Latest-News/ 2013/ August/ 02/ 130802-Portland-protects-the-nation [15] http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ server/ show/ nav. 1457
External links
HMS Portland gallery (http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/surface-fleet/type-23-frigates/ hms-portland/index.htm)
Article Sources and Contributors
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