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Career	RN Ensign

Ordered:	July 1988
Laid down:	12 December 1988
Launched:	2 March 1991
Commissioned:	20 May 1993
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,900 tonnes
Length:	133 m (463 ft)
Beam:	16.1 m (52.9 ft)
Draught:	7.3 m
Propulsion:	CODLAG (Combined Diesel-electric and Gas): 2 Rolls Royce Spey boost turbines 4 GEC Paxman-Valenta diesel engines 2 GEC electric motors
Speed:	28 knots, 15 knots on diesel-electric
Range:	7,800 miles at 15 knots
Complement:	185
Armament:	Two quad Harpoon launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun Two 30 mm guns Two magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers
Aircraft:	Lynx HMA8
Motto:	Virtutis Fortuna Comes (Latin: Fortune is the companion of valour)

HMS Iron Duke (F234) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.

See HMS Iron Duke for other ships of the same name.

v t e Type 23 frigates
Royal Navy	Norfolk Marlborough Argyll† Lancaster† Iron Duke† Monmouth† Westminster# Northumberland# Montrose† Richmond# Somerset# Grafton Sutherland# Kent# Portland# St Albans#
Chilean Navy	Almirante Cochrane (ex-Norfolk) Almirante Condell (ex-Marlborough) Almirante Lynch (ex-Grafton)
Preceded by: Type 22 frigate Followed by: Type 26 frigate (ASW) / Type 31 frigate (GP)
# = Fitted with towed array sonar for ASW operations † = General purpose ship without towed array sonar List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy

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