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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Argyll'' after the region of Argyll in Scotland. Her motto is ''ne obliviscaris'' (lest we forget). * , a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line, launched in 1650 as the 38-gun ''President'', renamed HMS ''Bonadventure'' in 1660, rebuilt four times and renamed HMS ''Argyll'' in 1715. She was sunk in 1748 as a breakwater. * , a ''Devonshire''-class armoured cruiser commissioned in 1905. She ran aground on the Bell Rock at the head of the Firths of Forth and Tay in 1915. * , a Type 23 ''Duke''-class frigate commissioned in May 1991. She has been involved in a number of deployments, most successfully during the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras, and Operation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February-August 2005. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Argyll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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