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HMS Norfolk was a British Type 23 frigate, the sixth in the Royal Navy to use this name, laid down in 1985 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was launched on the Clyde by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in July 1987 and named for the Dukedom of Norfolk .
HMS Norfolk (F230) HMS Northumberland (F238) P. HMS Portland (F79) R. HMS Richmond (F239) S. HMS Somerset (F82) HMS St Albans (F83) HMS Sutherland (F81) W. HMS ...
HMS Norfolk (78) was a County-class heavy cruiser launched in 1928 and was scrapped in 1950. HMS Norfolk (D21) was a County-class destroyer launched in 1967. She was sold to Chile in 1982, and renamed Capitán Prat. She was decommissioned in 2006 and sold for scrap. HMS Norfolk (F230) was a Type 23 or 'Duke'-class frigate launched in 1987
Although the Type 23 is officially the "Duke" class, and includes such famous names as HMS Iron Duke (which had been the name of the battleship HMS Iron Duke, Admiral Jellicoe's flagship at the Battle of Jutland), five of the names had previously been used on classes known as the "County class": Kent and Norfolk were names given both to 1960s ...
HMS Norfolk was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was the Lead ship of the Norfolk-subclass of which only two were built: Norfolk and Dorsetshire. She served throughout the Second World War. During 1939-41 she operated in the Atlantic against German raiders and blockade runners.
HMS Watchful, HQ, Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth, (14 April 1942 – July 1945) HMS Westcliffe, Flotilla training, Southend; HMS Westcliffe II, Combined Operations holding base for RM landing craft personnel, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex; HMS Wildfire, Chatham, Kent; HMS Wildfire II (1939–1940), Combined Operations base, Sheerness
The final pair of Counties – Norfolk and Dorsetshire – formed the Norfolk class. Another two ships that had been deferred from the 1927–1928 and 1928–1929 programmes – to have been named Northumberland and Surrey – were ordered on 15 May 1929, but suspended on 23 August and finally cancelled on 14 January 1930.
16:27, 13 Jan 2004 SoLando uploaded "HMS_Norfolk_(F230).jpg" (Photo of HMS Norfolk ... (Picture taken at Deutsches Museum für Kommunikation on Jan 11, 2004, by ...