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HMS ''Danae'' was a ''Leander''-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was, like the rest of the class, named after a figure of mythology. ''Danae'' was built by Devonport Dockyard. She was launched on 31 October 1965 and commissioned on 10 October 1967. ==Royal Navy service== In 1968, ''Danae'' became a Gibraltar guardship and later joined HMY ''Britannia'' in South America to perform royal escort duties. ''Danae'' subsequently undertook a Beira Patrol, which was designed to prevent oil reaching landlocked Rhodesia via the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique, of which the port of Beira there gave its name to the operation. ''Danae'' deployed to the Far East visiting Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and remained in that region until the middle of 1969. She then undertook another Beira Patrol (a routine duty for the Royal Navy until it was stopped in 1975) and finally returned to Devonport in October 1969, having been deployed for 12 months. In 1974, ''Danae'' deployed to the Far East via South Africa, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The following year, ''Danae'' performed a variety of duties while in the North Atlantic including oil-rig and fishery protection. She became a member (later flagship) of the NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic, shadowing the Russian Navy's Ocean 75 exercise. During the 1970s, ''Danae'' was one of the ''Leander''-class frigates used as the fictional "HMS ''Hero''" for the popular TV drama series ''Warship''. The BBC's children's television programme "Blue Peter" featured ''Warship'' being filmed at Plymouth Dockyard on board ''Danae'', with Lesley Judd in 1975. Six episodes of ''Warship'' were filmed aboard ''Danae'' around that time. In 1977, ''Danae'' took part in the Royal Navy Fleet Review to celebrate HM the Queen's Silver Jubilee. ''Danae'' was placed between her sister-ship ''Euryalus'' and ''Antelope''. Soon after, ''Danae'' commenced a modernisation program, which included the removal of her single 4.5-in twin turret to be replaced by an Exocet anti-ship missile system, giving ''Danae'' a powerful surface capability. The number of Sea Cat missiles she carried was also increased. The modernisation was completed in 1980. In 1982, ''Danae'' was assigned to NATO's Standing Force North Atlantic and was later deployed to the South Atlantic in the tense aftermath of the Falklands War, where she would escort the carrier ''Illustrious''. She left later that year. The following year, the ship returned to the South Atlantic to undertake a Falkland Islands patrol, at a time when that region was still very tense. In 1985, ''Danae'' made yet another journey to the South Atlantic. In the late 1980s the ship became ever more active with NATO's multi-national squadrons, though she was beginning to show signs of her increasing age. She was decommissioned in 1991, sold to Ecuador, and renamed ''Morán Valverde''. 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 Danae (F47)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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