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View all search resultsUK, Spanish frigates to visit Jakarta as part of Prince of Wales CSG
Two frigates, the Royal Navy's HMS Richmond and the Spanish Navy's Mendez Nunez, will be visiting Jakarta later this week as part of a deployment in the Indo-Pacific region under Operation Highmast 2025.
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The HMS Richmond anti-submarine frigate enters Tanjung Priok Port during a visit to Jakarta on May 22, 2011. The frigate is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Wednesday, June 25, as part of the Prince of Wales Carrier Strike Group's deployment in the Indo-Pacific region. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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wo foreign frigates are scheduled to visit Jakarta later this week as part of the Prince of Wales Carrier Strike Group (CSG) which is currently being deployed in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Royal Navy’s HMS Richmond is slated to arrive in Jakarta on Wednesday while the Spanish Navy’s Mendez Nunez will conduct an open ship on Friday.
HMS Richmond is a Type 23 frigate and was launched on April 6, 1993. Officially commissioned on June 22, 1995, Richmond is one of 16 Type 23 frigates ordered by the Royal Navy, with eight of the frigates have been decommissioned.
Another three frigates are operated by the Chilean Navy.
HMS Richmond is one of four frigates being constructed at Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. Another 12 frigates were built by Marconi Marine (Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited) in Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
The Type 23 frigates were divided into two variants, the General Purpose (GP) and the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) frigates. HMS Richmond is one of the ASW frigates. The Chilean frigates are all ASW frigates.
The Type 23 frigate has a length of 133 meters with a beam of 16.1 meters and a draft of 7.3 meters.
