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The Type 23 Frigate HMS Iron Duke
Career	RN Ensign
Ordered:	July 1988
Laid down:	12 December 1988
Launched:	2 March 1991
Commissioned:	20 May 1993
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,900 tonnes
Length:	133 m (463 ft)
Beam:	16.1 m (52.9 ft)
Draught:	7.3 m
Propulsion:	Combined diesel-electric and gas (CODLAG) : 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:	2 ASuW Harpoon quad launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun 2 Oerlikon 30 mm guns 4 Sting Ray torpedo tubes Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers
Aircraft:	Lynx HMA8
Motto:	''Virtutis Fortuna Comes'' (Latin: Fortune is the companion of valour)

:''See HMS ''Iron Duke'' for other ships of the same name.''
'HMS ''Iron Duke'' (F234)' is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. ''Iron Duke'' was launched on 2 March 1991 by Lady Jane King. Her home town is Kingston-upon-Hull and she is named after the Duke of Wellington (the "Iron Duke").
The motto of HMS ''Iron Duke'' is ''Virtutis Fortuna Comes'' (latin: "Fortune is the companion of valour") - inherited from the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot.

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Affiliations

Affiliations

★ His Grace, The Duke of Wellington

★ The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot)

★ No. 31 Squadron RAF

★ City of Kingston upon Hull

★ Worshipful Company of Founders