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frigate F99 HMS CORNWALL at Gibraltar
Ships and Harbours
 No: 919   Contributor: Lee Brown   Year: 2004   Country: United Kingdom
frigate F99 HMS CORNWALL at Gibraltar

Broadsword class Type 22 frigate F99 HMS CORNWALL, speeds out from Gibralter to escort the QE2 through the Straits and into the Atlantic. This is one of the ships earmarked to be mothballed under the lates defence cuts anounced in mid January.
Picture added on 31 January 2007
Comments:
'Foxtrot-nine-nine' was renowned for the 'Irani' Gulf Debacle when some of her crew was 'kidnapped' by Iranian Forces. They didn't want to fight back because they might start a diplomatic war, how British is that?. She was also launched by the late HRH Diana Princess of Wales. The last RN Frigate to show the F99 Pennant was the 1959 'Type 61' Salisbury Class HMS Lincoln

Added by David Forbes on 23 July 2007.
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