Retirement Decision for Royal Navy Frigate HMS Iron Duke 'Under Continual Review' After ‘Withdrawn’ Reports

Retirement decision for Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke 'under continual review' after ‘withdrawn’ reports

The Type 23 frigate has been a stalwart in the Royal Navy fleet, but has not been to sea for more than 200 days

Frigate fiasco as Royal Navy has only five (33%) functioning frigates

Thanks to Legerwood for alerting me to this. In the Telegraph yesterday: In 35 years at sea, HMS Iron Duke only ever fired her guns in anger a handful of times. She did so to hit a gun battery during the war against Colonel Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, and before that while seizing drugs in the Caribbean in 2009. For a Type 23 frigate, designed in the 1980s to take on the might of the Soviet navy, it was small-scale stuff. But at a time when the Co…