HMS Yarmouth (F101) was the first Modified Type 12 frigate

Type 12 frigate

Type 12 frigate can refer to several ship classes. It most commonly describes the common design of three ship classes of the Royal Navy designed during the 1950s and constructed during the 1960s....

 of the Rothesay

Rothesay class frigate

The Rothesay class, or Type 12M frigates were a class of frigates serving with the Royal Navy, South African Navy and the New Zealand Navy....

 class to enter service with the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

. From her commissioning in 1960, she performed in numerous roles, including the Third Cod War and the Falklands War

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

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On 13 July 1965, Yarmouth collided with the submarine HMS Tiptoe

HMS Tiptoe (P332)

HMS Tiptoe was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, and launched on 25 February 1944. She was one of two submarines named by Winston Churchill, and so far has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named Tiptoe...

, 10 miles South East of Portland Bill

Portland Bill

Portland Bill is a narrow promontory of Portland stone, which forms the most southerly part of Isle of Portland, and therefore also the county of Dorset, England....

. Tiptoe survived, but had to be repaired at the yards of Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird

Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.- Founding of the business :The Company...

.

Falklands War

She carried out a variety of tasks including shore bombardment, anti-submarine patrols, covert operations and escorting merchant ships to and from the landing area. On the early hours of 23 May 1982, along with HMS Brilliant

HMS Brilliant (F90)

HMS Brilliant was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.She was part of the Task Force that took part in the Falklands War, with Captain John Coward in command...

, she intercepted and shelled the Argentine coaster ARA Monsunen west of Lively Island

Lively Island

Lively Island is the largest of the Lively Island Group of the Falkland Islands, The island group lies east of East Falkland. Lively Island is the largest rat-free island in the Falklands, hence its importance to birdlife...

, which evaded capture by running aground at Seal Cove. After the San Carlos Landings (Operation Sutton

Operation Sutton

During the 1982 Falklands War, Operation Sutton was the British landings on the shores of San Carlos Water, at Ajax Bay and Port San Carlos, near the San Carlos on East Falkland. During the night 3 Commando Brigade along with attached units of the Parachute Regiment were landed from the liner SS...

), she provided air defence during the Battle of San Carlos

Battle of San Carlos (1982)

The Battle of San Carlos was a major battle between aircraft and ships that lasted from 21 to 25 May 1982 during the British landings on the shores of San Carlos Water in the 1982 Falklands War . Low-flying land-based Argentine jet aircraft made repeated attacks on ships of the British Task Force...

 for the landing ships in San Carlos Water On the 25 May, she shot down an A4C Skyhawk (C-319^{USN pic}) flown by Teniente Tomás Lucero, with her Sea Cat missile system. Lucero ejected and was recovered by HMS Fearless

HMS Fearless (L10)

HMS Fearless was a Royal Navy ship which served from 1965 until 2002. One of two from the Landing Platform Dock class she was based in HMNB Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 37 year life...

. During the war she fired over 1,000 shell

Shell (projectile)

A shell is a payload-carrying projectile, which, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot . Solid shot may contain a pyrotechnic compound if a tracer or spotting charge is used...

s from her 4.5" guns mostly during shore bombardment and 58 anti-submarine Limbo

Limbo (weapon)

Limbo, or Anti Submarine Mortar Mark 10 , was the final British development of a forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon originally designed during the Second World War. Limbo, a three-barreled mortar similar to the earlier Squid that it superseded, was developed by the Admiralty Underwater Weapons...

 mortar rounds.

She was decommissioned in 1986, and in 1987 towed out to the North Atlantic and sunk by weapons from HMS Manchester

HMS Manchester (D95)

HMS Manchester was a Type 42 destroyer in the 5th Destroyer Squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1978 at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, launched in 1980, commissioned in 1982, and decommissioned on 24 February 2011.Her nickname is the "Busy Bee", in reference to...

 in that year's SinkEx

SINKEX

SINKEX or Sink Exercise is a US military term for the test of a weapons system usually involving a torpedo or missile attack of an unmanned target ship. The US Navy sometimes refers to this type of exercise as a HULKEX...

on the 16 June 1987.

External links

• HMS Yarmouth A former crewmembers website
• HMS Yarmouth F101 on flickr
• Lt Lucero rescued after being shot down by HMS Yarmouth (7:10)