HMS Cornwall (F99)

HMS Cornwall in the Persian Gulf
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Cornwall
Operator	Royal Navy
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down	14 December 1983
Launched	14 October 1985
Sponsored by	Diana, Princess of Wales
Commissioned	23 April 1988
Decommissioned	30 June 2011[1]
Homeport	HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification	Pennant number: F99 IMO number: 4907115 International callsign: GDLU[2]
Motto	Unus et omnes "One and all"
Nickname(s)	"The Fighting 99" "Ice cream frigate"[1]
Fate	Scrapped October 2013
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General characteristics
Class and type	Type 22 frigate
Displacement	5,300 tons
Length	148.1 m (485 ft 11 in)
Beam	14.8 m (48 ft 7 in)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	2 × Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines (high speed) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne gas turbines (cruising) COGAG
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (cruise) 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (maximum)
Complement	250 (max. 301)
Sensors and processing systems	Type 1007 navigation radar Type 967 and 968 surveillance radar 2 × Type 911 Sea Wolf tracking radars UAT Electronic Surveillance System Type 2050 active sonar
Armament	2 × Sea Wolf anti-air system (Total of 72 Sea Wolf missiles)[3] 2 × Quad Harpoon missile launchers (total of 8 Harpoons)[3] 2 × triple magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes (total of 36 torpedoes)[3] 1 × 4.5 in (114 mm) Mk.8 gun[3] 2 × 20 mm GAM-BO1 guns[3] 1 × Goalkeeper CIWS[3] NATO Seagnat Decoy Launchers[3]
Aircraft carried	2 × Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peacetime) Armed with 4 × Sea Skua anti-ships missiles 2 × Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes 2 × Mk 11 depth charges 2 × Machine guns

HMS Cornwall was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the first Batch 3 to be built, and the last to decommissioned. Cornwall was based at HMNB Devonport in Devon, England, part of the Devonport Flotilla.

She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders and launched by Diana, Princess of Wales at Scotstoun on the River Clyde in October 1985 and commissioned at Falmouth in 1988 by the ship's sponsor, Diana, Princess of Wales (who was also the Duchess of Cornwall).