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La Motte-Picquet was a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Navy. She was the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. As of January 2012[update] she was serving in the Persian Gulf. The ship was decommissioned in October 2020.[3]
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Name | La Motte-Picquet |
Namesake | Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte |
Builder | Brest arsenal |
Laid down | 12 February 1982 |
Launched | 6 February 1985 |
Commissioned | 18 February 1988 |
Decommissioned | 13 October 2020[1] |
Status | Retired |
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Class and type | Georges Leygues-class frigate |
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Length | 139 m (456 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
Height | 39.36 m (129 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
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Service history
editOn 22 August 2007, she took custody of the Danish freighter Danica White which had been captured by pirates on 3 June.
2011/12 tour
editShe left Brest on 9 November 2011 for active duty in the Indian Ocean and was refuelled by the US replenishment ship USNS Patuxent on 10 January 2012.[4] On 22 January she passed through the Straits of Hormuz with the British frigate HMS Argyll and a US battlegroup centred on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.[5]
Opération Chammal
editIn November 2015, a French Navy press release stated that La Motte-Picquet will be part of the Charles de Gaulle task force launching strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant starting January 2016.[6]
Tracking Russian warships
editIn March 2016, La Motte-Picquet shadowed the Russian destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, an oiler and a tugboat as it passed near French waters.[7]
British-French CJEF
editIn April 2016, La Motte-Picquet was part of the Anglo-French CJEF exercise.[8]
Gallery
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The F70 type frigates are equipped with a Variable Depth Sonar type DUBV43 or DUBV43C.
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Operational Center of La Motte-Picquet (7 February 2001).
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Gunnery crew of La Motte-Picquet, in front of the Crotale anti-air missile launcher
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Shooting exercises with an ANF1, from the bridge.
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WEAPONS crew of La Motte-Picquet.
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Patch of La Motte Picquet.
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La Motte-Picquet in Cobh, Ireland, 12 June 2014.
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La Motte-Picquet in Cobh, Ireland, 12 June 2014.
References
edit- ^ "La Motte-Picquet : Dernière cérémonie des couleurs à Brest". 15 October 2020.
- ^ "Georges Leygues class anti-submarine destroyer Type F70 ASM ASW Anti-submarine Frigates Frégates anti-sous-marines FASM D640 D641 D642 D643 D644 D645 D646 DUBV-43 DSBV-61 Marine Nationale French Navy DCNS datasheet pictures photos video specifications".
- ^ "La Motte-Picquet : Dernière cérémonie des couleurs à Brest". 15 October 2020.
- ^ "Un pétrolier américain ravitaille la frégate La Motte-Picquet". French Ministry of Defence. 11 January 2012.
- ^ Stringer, David (24 January 2012). "UK could send more navy assets to Strait of Hormuz". Associated Press.[dead link]
- ^ "Mission Arromanches 2 : Déploiment du GAN en Méditerranée orientale et dans l'Océan Indien". colsbleus.fr (in French). 18 November 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ^ "HMS Somerset's tsar turn as she spends Easter monitoring Russian task group". Royal Navy. 30 March 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ "UK and France launch rapid deployment exercise". Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom). 10 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
- Frégate La Motte-Picquet on netmarine.net
External links
edit- Media related to La Motte-Picquet (D645) at Wikimedia Commons