| Name: | ARGONAUT |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Keel: | 27/11/1964 |
| Launched: | 08/02/1966 |
| Completed: | 05/09/1967 |
| Builder: | Hawthorn, Leslie (Ship Builders) Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 758 |
| Dimensions: | 2380disp - 2860disp, 360.0 x 41.0 x 18.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, English Electric type, 30000hp |
| Engines by: | JS White & Co Ltd, Cowes |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 x 4.5ins, 2 x 40mm guns; Limbo anti-submarine mortar; |
| 1 x Wasp helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 05/09/1967 | British Royal Navy |
| 02/1995 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the 26 ship Leander class |
| Allocated pennant number F56 | |
| Turbines manufactured by White but installed by Hawthorn Leslie | |
| 1980: Modernised at Devonport Dockyard with 4 x 1 x Exocet anti-ship missiles, | |
| 2 x 4 x Seacat AA missiles and fitted with 2 x 3 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
| 1984: Fitted with a towed array sonar & associated winch | |
| 31/03/1993: Decommissioned | |
| 02/1995: Broken up in Spain |
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