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The current HMS ''Montrose'' is the eighth of the sixteen ship Type 23 or 'Duke' class of frigates, of the Royal Navy, named after the Duke of Montrose. She was laid down in November 1989 by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde, and was launched on 31 July 1992 by Lady Rifkind (when, as Mrs Edith Rifkind, her husband Sir Malcolm Rifkind was Secretary of State for Defence). She commissioned into service in June 1994. Having once been the flagship of the 6th Frigate Squadron, ''Montrose'' is now part of the Devonport Flotilla, based in Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth. ==Battle honours== There has only been one previous ship built with the same name, which was HMS ''Montrose'' (D01), the first of eight Admiralty-type destroyer leaders, sometimes known as the ''Scott'' class. However, whichever tender was attached to the Tay Division of the Royal Naval Reserve was always renamed HMS ''Montrose'' in honour of James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose, who founded the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1903; the last ship that was so named was the Ton class minesweeper HMS ''Stubbington''. All of HMS ''Montrose'' battle honours were won by her WW2-era predecessor, and are as follows: *Atlantic (1939-1940) *Dunkirk (1940) *Arctic (1942-1943) *North Sea (1942-1944) *English Channel (1943-1944) *Normandy (1944) The honours board for that ship can be seen on board the preserved frigate ''HMS Unicorn'', alongside in Dundee. 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 Montrose (F236)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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