Home > HMS Ariadne (F72)
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| 1st November 1969
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| 10th September 1971
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| 10th February 1973
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| May 1992 from Royal Navy
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| Sold to Chile 1992
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HMS Ariadne (F72) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like the rest of the Leander-class, Ariadne was named after a figure of mythology. Ariadne was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders of Scotstoun. She was the last of the Leander-class to be completed and the last warship to be built for the RN powered by steam. Ariadne was launched on the 10th September 1971 and commissioned on the 10th February 1973.
In the year of her commission, Ariadne undertook a Fishery Protection Patrol during the Second Cod War with Iceland. In 1976, Ariadne completed a refit and the following year took part in the annual Group Deployment, visiting a variety of ports in South America and West Africa, as-well as performing naval exercises. Later that year, Ariadne took part in the, so far, last Fleet Review of the Royal Navy, in celebration of HM the Queen's Silver Jubilee. She was positioned in the middle of HM ships Antelope and Jupiter. In 1979, Ariadne joined Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT), a NATO multi-national squadron.
Ariadne was intended to of been modernisation, which would have included the removal of her one 4.5-in twin gun, which would have been replaced by the ExocetThe Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile made in various versions capable of being launched from surface ships and boats, submarines, and airplanes. It has been extensively used in combat from the 1980s onwards. The name comes from a French word for anti-ship missile, as-well as the addition of the SeaWolf missile, but the 1981 Defence Review by the defence minister John NottThe Right Honourable Sir John Nott was a British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He featured heavily in the public eye as Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the subs, cancelled the modernisation for Ariadne and other Batch Three ships. In 1981Events January-February January Sarawak Chamber found January 1 Greece enters the EEC January 1 Palau becomes self-governing January 4 Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 16 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette D, Ariadne became the West Indies Guardship , and while there, performed a variety of duties in that region. In 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu, Ariadne shadowed the SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 cruiser Slava , which had only been commissioned in 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, while she was sailing off IrelandThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan. It was a common practise during the Cold War, with Soviet warships also shadowing RN vessels quite often. In 1987, Ariadne joined the 6th Frigate Squadron .
Ariadne, after spending the last years of her career as a training ship, decommissioned in May 1992 and was subsequently sold to Chile, being renamed General Baquedano. She was decommissioned from the Chilean Navy in December 1998.The " General Baquedano" was offered to sold for scrap in february 2003. See HMS Ariadne for other ships of the name.
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