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 and awards	Falklands War
Fate	Scrapped in 1995
General characteristics
Class and 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
Armament	As built: 1 × twin 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns 1 × quadruple Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launchers 1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar From 1980: 4 × Exocet anti-ship missile launchers 2 × quadruple Seacat anti-aircraft missile launchers 2 × single 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	1 × Westland Wasp helicopter From 1980: 1 × Lynx helicopter

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.