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HMS Chatham is the last of four Type 22, Batch 3 frigates and was built on the Tyne by Swan Hunters Shipbuilders Ltd. She was launched in January 1988 by Lady Roni Oswald and commissioned into service in the Royal Navy in 1990.
She is the seventh Royal Navy ship to bear the name; the most notable of the other six previous vessels was built at Chatham Royal Dockyard and launched in 1741. She had the sad, but great, honour of transporting the body of Admiral Lord Nelson from HMS Victory to Greenwich Hospital, where he was to lie in state until his funeral at St. Pauls. The Ship's Company is very proud of her battle honours from Quiberon Bay in 1759 and the Dardanelles from 1915 to 1916.
HMS Chatham has the rare honour of having an English motto, subsequently translated into Latin. Shortly before the completion of the Ship, it was decided that the traditional cry of “Up and At 'Em',” familiar from rugby and football pitch touchlines within the towns of Medway, would be a fitting tribute. From this phrase, translated into Latin we have "Surge et
Vince", or "Arise and Conquer".
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