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{{Short description|British-made frigate}}
{{Other uses|Sahand (disambiguation)}}
{{For|Iranian Moudge-class ship of the same name|Iranian frigate Sahand (2012)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
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{{Infobox ship image
|Ship image=[[File:IS Sahand (F-74) 1977.jpg|300px|A starboard bow view of the Iranian destroyer escort ITS Faramarz (DE 74), redesignated as IRS Sahand (F 74).]]
|Ship caption=A starboard bow view of the Iranian destroyer escort ITS ''Faramarz'' (DE 74), redesignated as IRS ''Sahand'' (F 74)
}}
{{Infobox ship career
|Ship country=Iran
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Pahlavi Iran|naval}} {{shipboxflag|Iran|naval}}
|Ship name=IIS ''Faramarz''
|Ship namesake=[[Faramarz]]
|Ship ordered=1960
|Ship builder=[[Vosper Thornycroft]], [[Woolston, Southampton|Woolston]]<ref name=Miramar>{{Cite ship register|register=MSI|id=6132433|shipname=Faramarz |access-date=9 December 2009 }}</ref>
|Ship yard number=1080<ref name=Miramar />
|Ship laid down=
|Ship launched=30 July 1969;<ref name=Miramar /> {{Years ago|1969}} years ago.
|Ship commissioned=February 1972<ref name=Miramar />
|Ship renamed=''Sahand'', 1985<ref name=Miramar />
}}
{{Infobox ship career
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|Ship namesake=[[Sahand]] volcano
|Ship decommissioned=
|Ship struck=
|Ship homeport=[[Bandar-Abbas]]
|Ship fate=Sunk in [[Operation Praying Mantis]], 18 April 1988<ref name=Miramar />
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Ship class={{sclass|Alvand|frigate}}
|Ship displacement=1,100&nbsp;tons (1,540&nbsp;tons full load)
|Ship length={{convert|94.5|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|11.07|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship height=
|Ship draught={{convert|3.25|m|ft|abbr=on}}
|Ship power=
|Ship propulsion=*2 shafts, 2 Paxman Ventura cruising diesels, {{convert|3800|bhp|kW|-1|abbr=on}}, 17&nbsp;knots
*2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM2 boost gas turbines, {{convert|46000|shp|kW|-2|abbr=on}}, {{convert|39|kn|km/h|0}}
|Ship sail plan=
|Ship speed={{convert|39|kn|km/h|0}} max
|Ship range={{convert|5000|nmi|km|-3|abbr=on}} at {{convert|15|kn|km/h|0}}
|Ship complement=125-146
|Ship crew=
|Ship time to activate=
|Ship sensors=
|Ship EW=
|Ship armament=*5 × [[Sea Killer]] anti-ship missiles
*1 × [[4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 8 naval gun|4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 8 gun]]
*1 × twin 35&nbsp;mm AAA, 2 × single 20&nbsp;mm AAA
*2 × 81&nbsp;mm mortars
*2 × 0.50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns
*1 × [[Limbo (weapon)|Limbo]] ASW mortar
*2 × triple 12.75&nbsp;in torpedo tubes
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}}
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'''Iranian frigate ''Sahand''''' ({{langx|fa|سهند}}) was a [[United Kingdom|British]]-made [[Vosper & Company|Vosper]] Mark V class [[frigate]] (also known as the {{sclass|Alvand|frigate|4}}) commissioned as part of a four-ship order. She was launched in 1969. The ship was originally called ''Faramarz'', named after a character in [[Ferdowsi]]'s ''[[Shahnameh]]''. After the 1979 [[Iranian Revolution|Islamic Revolution]] it was renamed ''Sahand'', after the [[Sahand]] volcano.

==Construction==
On 10 May 1970, she was damaged by fire while [[fitting out]].<ref>{{citation|first=Paul H.|last=Silverstone|title=Naval Intelligence|journal=Warship International|publisher=International Naval Research Organization|volume=7|number=4|date=1970|page=315|jstor=44887436}}</ref>

==Service history==
{{stack|[[File:Bild-Prayingmantis5sahand.jpg|thumb|''Sahand'' burns after strikes by U.S. Navy ships and aircraft on 18 April 1988.]]}}
The [[Islamic Republic of Iran Navy|Iranian Navy]] ship was sunk in [[Operation Praying Mantis]] on 18 April 1988. Located by two American [[Grumman A-6 Intruder|A-6E Intruders]] of [[Third VA-95 (U.S. Navy)|Attack Squadron VA-95]] steaming roughly {{convert|10|mi|km|order=flip}} southwest of [[Larak Island]], she was hit by two [[Harpoon missile]]s and four [[AGM-123 Skipper II]] laser-guided missiles. A pair of [[CBU-100 Cluster Bomb|Rockeye]] cluster bombs from the aircraft and a single Harpoon from the [[destroyer]] {{USS|Joseph Strauss|DDG-16|6}} finished the destruction of the ship.<ref name="irna"/>

Left heavily aflame, dead in the water and listing to port, ''Sahand'' burned for several hours before fires reached her ammunition magazines and they detonated, sinking her in over {{convert|200|m|ft|abbr=off|order=flip}} of water southwest of Larak Island. Forty-five members of her crew were killed.<ref name="irna">{{cite web|url=http://irna.ir/NewsShow.aspx?NID=30345346|title=Islamic Republic News Agency|access-date=20 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316174234/http://irna.ir/NewsShow.aspx?NID=30345346|archive-date=16 March 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all|language=fa}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Iran}}
* [[List of ships sunk by missiles]]
* [[List of Imperial Iranian Navy vessels in 1979]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
*{{cite book|last=Hiro|first=Dilip|title=The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict|location=London|publisher=Routledge Chapman & Hall, Inc|year=1991|isbn=0-415-90406-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/longestwariranir00hiro}}

{{commons category|IRIS 74 Sahand (ship, 1972)}}

{{Alvand class frigate}}
{{1988 shipwrecks}}
{{Frigates of Iran}}

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[[Category:Alvand-class frigates]]
[[Category:Ships built in Southampton]]
[[Category:1969 ships]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Persian Gulf]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1988]]
[[Category:Ships sunk by US aircraft]]
[[Category:Frigates sunk by aircraft]]
[[Category:Iran–Iraq War naval ships of Iran]]
[[Category:Naval magazine explosions]]


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