IRIS Sahand (1969)
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsIranian frigate Sahand (Template:Langx) was a British-made Vosper Mark V class frigate (also known as the Template:Sclass) 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 Islamic Revolution it was renamed Sahand, after the Sahand volcano.
Construction
On 10 May 1970, she was damaged by fire while fitting out.[1]
Service history
Template:Stack The Iranian Navy ship was sunk in Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988. Located by two American A-6E Intruders of Attack Squadron VA-95 steaming roughly Template:Convert southwest of Larak Island, she was hit by two Harpoon missiles and four AGM-123 Skipper II laser-guided missiles. A pair of Rockeye cluster bombs from the aircraft and a single Harpoon from the destroyer Template:USS finished the destruction of the ship.[2]
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 Template:Convert of water southwest of Larak Island. Forty-five members of her crew were killed.[2]
See also
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