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Name | La Motte-Picquet |
Namesake | Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte |
Builder | Brest arsenal |
Laid down | 12 February 1982 |
Launched | 6 February 1985 |
Commissioned | 18 February 1988 |
Decommissioned | 13 October 2020 [1] |
Status | Retired |
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Class and type | Georges Leygues-class frigate |
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Length | 139 m (456 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
Height | 39.36 m (129 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
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La Motte-Picquet was a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Navy. She was the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. As of January 2012 [update] she was serving in the Persian Gulf. The ship was decommissioned in October 2020. [3]
On 22 August 2007, she took custody of the Danish freighter Danica White which had been captured by pirates on 3 June.
She left Brest on 9 November 2011 for active duty in the Indian Ocean and was refuelled by the US replenishment ship USNS Patuxent on 10 January 2012. [4] On 22 January she passed through the Straits of Hormuz with the British frigate HMS Argyll and a US battlegroup centred on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. [5]
In November 2015, a French Navy press release stated that La Motte-Picquet will be part of the Charles de Gaulle task force launching strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant starting January 2016. [6]
In March 2016, La Motte-Picquet shadowed the Russian destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov, an oiler and a tugboat as it passed near French waters. [7]
In April 2016, La Motte-Picquet was part of the Anglo-French CJEF exercise. [8]