Achilles HMS

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Rig

Frigate

Built

1968

Demise

scuttled in 2010

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HMS Achilles was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.[1] She was built by Yarrow at Glasgow. She was launched on 21 November 1968 and commissioned on 9 July 1970.[2] She was sold to Chile in 1991 and washed away from her berth at Talcahuano by a tsunami in February 2010. She was scuttled the following month by the Chilean Navy as a danger to navigation;
Ministro Zenteno in the Chilean Navy

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