 |
||
|
HOME
|
US Navy -
ships
|
US Navy - air
units
|
USMC - air
units
|
International
Navies
|
Weapon Systems
|
Special Reports |
||
|
Royal Navy - Guided Missile Frigate F 81 HMS Sutherland |
||
|
||
| 12/22 | ||
|
Type,
class: Guided Missile Frigate; Type 23 / Duke class;
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant Builder: GEC Marconi Marine (YSL), Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. STATUS: Laid down: October 14, 1993 Launched: March 9, 1996 Commissioned: July 4, 1997 IN SERVICE Homeport: HMNB Devonport Namesake: Duke of Sutherland Ships Motto: SANS PEUR (without fear) Technical Data: see INFO > Duke / Type 23 class Guided Missile Frigate |
||
| images | ||
                                                         Mark 8 gun   GWS 26 vertical launching system (VLS) for Sea Wolf SAM missiles   |
||
|
HMS Sutherland (F 81): ... is a Type 23 frigate of the British Royal Navy. She is the thirteenth ship in the Duke class of frigates and is the third ship to bear the name, more than 200 years since the name was last used. She was launched in 1996 by Lady Christina Walmsley, wife of Sir Robert Walmsley KCB. Before this occasion, Royal Navy ships had always been launched with a bottle of champagne, but Lady Walmsley broke with tradition and used a bottle of Macallan Scotch whisky. Service history: She was deployed to the Falkland Islands in the winter 1998/1999. In 2000, she was part of the task force NTG2000, the first time Royal Navy ships have circumnavigated the globe since 1986. In December 2007, major upgrades worth £35 million were announced making Sutherland the "most powerful frigate in the fleet". The upgrades included Sonar 2087, an upgrade to Seawolf, an improvement to the 4.5 inch gun to allow it to fire long-range ammunition, and a reshaped stern to cut fuel use. After berthing in Invergordon, HMS Sutherland was granted the freedom of the county of Sutherland at a ceremony in Dornoch on 18 September 2004. A subsequent visit to Invergordon in March 2011 was cut short, with "operational commitments" as the given reason. This was eventually revealed as her deployment as part of the UK Response Force Task Group's (RFTG) first deployment, named COUGAR' 11. She returned to Invergordon in April 2013. In May 2011, she made a port visit to Patras, Greece following participation in exercises off Crete, after which she became involved in the operations off the Libyan coast. On 16 June 2011, Sutherland visited Souda Bay in Crete to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Crete, before sailing to Kalamata in Greece to conduct further World War II memorials. On 24 July 2011, Sutherland returned to the coast of Libya as part of Operation Ellamy. On 18 October 2011, Sutherland passed through Tower Bridge in London and docked next to HMS Belfast, returning through the bridge on 22 October 2011. In 2012, she was part of the COUGAR 12 task group. She took part in Exercise Joint Warrior 2013. Sutherland to part in 2016 Exercise Griffin Strike, a UK-French combined exercise. Sutherland escorted the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich through the English Channel in May 2016. In April 2017, Sutherland was again tasked with escorting Russian warships in the English Channel, on this occasion, the Steregushchiy-class corvettes, Soobrazitelnyy and Boikiy. Sutherland was the first vessel assigned to escort HMS Queen Elizabeth when she embarked on sea trials in June 2017. In 2018 Sutherland had a deployment to the Pacific Ocean. Part of her mission was "to continue the pressure campaign on North Korea", and on her return traveled through the South China Sea to assert navigation rights against Chinese claims. Early in 2019 she served as a testbed for an integrated mount for the Martlet LMM and DS30M 30mm cannon, successfully engaging in firing operations against a motorboat sized target at the Aberporth range in Wales. In April 2021, Sutherland entered long-term refit to incorporate Sea Ceptor SAM's as well as other system updates. source: wikipedia |
||
|
Duke of Sutherland ... is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom which was created by William IV in 1833 for George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford. A series of marriages to heiresses by members of the Leveson-Gower family made the Dukes of Sutherland one of the richest landowning families in the United Kingdom. The title remained in the Leveson-Gower family until the death of the 5th Duke of Sutherland in 1963, when it passed to John Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere. The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Sutherland are: Marquess of Stafford (created 1786), Earl Gower (1746), Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere in the County of Shropshire (1846), Viscount Trentham, of Trentham in the County of Stafford (1746), Viscount Brackley, of Brackley in the County of Northampton (1846), and Baron Gower, of Sittenham in the County of York (1703). The marquessate of Stafford, the earldom of Gower and the viscounty of Trentham are in the Peerage of Great Britain, the dukedom, the earldom of Ellesmere and the viscounty of Brackley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and the barony of Gower in the Peerage of England. The Duke is also a Baronet, of Sittenham in the County of York, a title created in the Baronetage of England in 1620. Between 1839 and 1963 the Dukes also held the titles of Lord Strathnaver and Earl of Sutherland, both in the Peerage of Scotland. The Scottish titles came into the family through the marriage of the first Duke to Elizabeth Sutherland, 19th Countess of Sutherland. |
||
| patches + more | ||
  |
||
|
|
seaforces.org
|
Royal
Navy start page
| |