HMS Argonaut (F56)
HMS Argonaut in 1985 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Argonaut |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie and Company |
| Laid down | 27 November 1964 |
| Launched | 8 February 1966 |
| Commissioned | 17 August 1967 |
| Decommissioned | 31 March 1993 |
| Identification | Pennant number F56 |
| Honours & awards | Falklands War |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
| Length | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
| Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 223 |
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HMS Argonaut (F56) was a Leander-class frigate that served with the Royal Navy from 1967 to 1993. She took part in the Falklands War in 1982, sustaining damage and casualties in action.