HMS Cleopatra at Devonport frigate complex Plymouth Devon The Devonport frigate complex was completed in and continues to provide a covered refitting facility for frigates and destroyers In the photograph HMS Cleopatra F births in the covered dock The ship was built at Devonport and launched in joining the Beira Patrol which prevented oil from reaching landlocked Rhodesia via the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique The Cleopatra aslo took part in the fleet review for the Queens Silver Jubilee in the year the photograph was taken By the early s the frigate was starting to show its age and was decommisioned on st January and was sold for scrap the following year
Work by Michael Walters
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