HMS Argyll

HMS Argyll

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Argyll" after the region of Argyll in Scotland. Her motto is "ne obliviscaris" (lest we forget).

*, a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line, launched in 1650 as the 38-gun "President", renamed HMS "Bonadventure" in 1660, rebuilt four times and renamed HMS "Argyll" in 1715. She was sunk in 1748 as a breakwater.
*, a "Devonshire"-class armoured cruiser commissioned in 1905. She ran aground on the Bell Rock at the head of the Firths of Forth and Tay in 1915.
*, a Type 23 "Duke"-class frigate commissioned in May 1991. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras, and Operation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February-August 2005.

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