List of ship decommissionings in 2006

The list of ship decommissionings in 2006 includes a chronological list of all ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s decommissioned in 2006.

	Ship	Class and type	Fate	Other notes
24 January	*Grafton* HMS Grafton (F80) HMS Grafton was a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. It was the ninth vessel to bear the name, and is named after the Duke of Grafton....	Type 23 frigate Type 23 frigate The Type 23 frigate is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. All the ships were first named after British Dukes, thus the class is also known as the Duke class. The first Type 23 was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, was launched in May 2000 and commissioned in...	Sold to Chile
24 February	*Grey Rover* RFA Grey Rover (A269) RFA Grey Rover was a Rover class small fleet tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.- External links :*...	Rover class Rover class tanker The Rover class is a ship class of "Small Fleet Tanker" of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. They are tasked with the support of naval warships by the replenishment at sea with fuel oils and with limited supplies of other naval stores... fleet tanker	Awaiting disposal
26 February	*Wollongong* HMAS Wollongong (FCPB 206) HMAS Wollongong , named for the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, was one of fifteen Fremantle class patrol boats to operate with the Royal Australian Navy...	Fremantle class Fremantle class patrol boat The Fremantle-class patrol boats were coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1979 to 2007. Designed by British shipbuilder Brooke Marine and constructed in Australia by North Queensland Engineers and Agents, the Fremantle class were larger, more powerful, and more... patrol boat
8 July	*Gawler* HMAS Gawler (FCPB 212) HMAS Gawler , named for the town of Gawler, South Australia was a Fremantle class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy .-Design and construction:...	Fremantle class Fremantle class patrol boat The Fremantle-class patrol boats were coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1979 to 2007. Designed by British shipbuilder Brooke Marine and constructed in Australia by North Queensland Engineers and Agents, the Fremantle class were larger, more powerful, and more... patrol boat	Awaiting disposal
8 July	*Geelong* HMAS Geelong (FCPB 215) HMAS Geelong , named for the city of Geelong, Victoria, was a Fremantle class patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy .-Design and construction:...	Fremantle class Fremantle class patrol boat The Fremantle-class patrol boats were coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1979 to 2007. Designed by British shipbuilder Brooke Marine and constructed in Australia by North Queensland Engineers and Agents, the Fremantle class were larger, more powerful, and more... patrol boat	Awaiting disposal
11 August	*Capitan Prat* HMS Norfolk (D21) The fifth HMS Norfolk was laid down on 15 March 1966 by Swan Hunter and launched by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk in November 1967. She was commissioned in March 1970...	County class destroyer County class destroyer The County class was a class of guided missile destroyers, the first such vessels built by the Royal Navy. Designed specifically around the Sea Slug anti-aircraft missile system, the primary role of these ships was area air-defence around the aircraft carrier task force in the nuclear-war...
11 August	*Ministro Zenteno* HMS Achilles (F12) HMS Achilles was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow at Glasgow. She was launched on 21 November 1968 and commissioned on 9 July 1970. Unlike other ships, Achilles would not undergo Exocet modernisation due to the 1981 defence review by John Nott...	Leander class Leander class frigate The Leander class, or Type 12I frigates, comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973... Frigate
11 August	*Fremantle* HMAS Fremantle (FCPB 203) HMAS Fremantle , named for the city of Fremantle, Western Australia, was the lead ship of the Fremantle class patrol boats, entering service in the Royal Australian Navy in 1980 and decommissioning in 2006...	Fremantle class Fremantle class patrol boat The Fremantle-class patrol boats were coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1979 to 2007. Designed by British shipbuilder Brooke Marine and constructed in Australia by North Queensland Engineers and Agents, the Fremantle class were larger, more powerful, and more... patrol boat	Awaiting disposal
12 September	*Sovereign* HMS Sovereign (S108) HMS Sovereign is a nuclear powered fleet submarine of the Swiftsure class.-Construction:Construction of the boat began on 18 September 1970; she was launched on 17 February 1973, and commissioned on 11 July 1974.-Operational history:...	Swiftsure class Swiftsure class submarine The Swiftsure class were a class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines in service with the Royal Navy from the early 1970s until 2010.... submarine	Awaiting disposal
16 September	*Westralia* HMAS Westralia (O 195) HMAS Westralia was a modified Leaf class replenishment oiler which served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1989 to 2006. Formerly RFA Appleleaf , she served in with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 1975 to 1989. The ship was initially leased to the RAN, then purchased outright in 1994...	Leaf class Leaf class tanker The Leaf class is a class of support tanker of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary . The class is somewhat unusual as it is an amalgam of various civilian tankers chartered for naval auxiliary use and as such there have been many different designs of ship in this particular class... replenishment oiler	Sold	renamed Shiraz, converted to FPSO Floating Production Storage and Offloading A floating production, storage and offloading unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore industry for the processing of hydrocarbons and for storage of oil. A FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil until it... vessel
22 September	*Almirante Cochrane* HMS Antrim (D18) HMS Antrim was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 19 October 1967. In the mid-1970s, the Royal Navy removed 'B' turret and replaced it with four Exocet launchers.-Falklands Conflict:...	County class destroyer County class destroyer The County class was a class of guided missile destroyers, the first such vessels built by the Royal Navy. Designed specifically around the Sea Slug anti-aircraft missile system, the primary role of these ships was area air-defence around the aircraft carrier task force in the nuclear-war...		Last County class to be decommissioned

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