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HMS Westminster is a Type 23 frigate. The ship recently returned to service after one of the longest, most comprehensive and complex revamps in her lifespan.
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Known throughout the Royal Navy as ‘the capital ship’, HMS Westminster is a Type 23 (or ‘Dukeclass’) frigate. Despite having originally been designed for anti-submarine warfare, the Dukeclass’s versatility has seen them used in a number of fleet roles, from warfighting to peacekeeping missions. In 2014, HMS Westminster underwent an extensive refit which resulted in a new principal weapon: the Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile system. With twice the range of the old missile system, Sea Ceptor makes HMS Westminster better equipped than ever to face the challenges of 21st-century warfare.
The first HMS Westminster was a W-class destroyers built to deal with the U-boat menace during the Great War.
HMS Westminster saw action during the Blitzkrieg campaign of 1940, helping to evacuate Allied troops from Flushing, before being damaged off Dunkirk.
The destroyer spent the bulk of the war defending coastal convoys, fending off attacks from German ‘E-boats’ – fast, heavily-armed motorboats.
After the war, Westminster operated out of Rosyth and Malta, but was sold in July 1963, arriving in Faslane later that month to be broken up for scrap.
The second and current HMS Westminster was launched on 4 February 1992.
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