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NAVY NEWS, APRIL 1991
Penelope pays off AFTER 30 years the Royal Navy's oldest frigate, HMS Penelope, has finally come to the end of her service, having steamed well over half a million miles. During her long life the Penelope, a Falklands veteran, has served all over the world and been the centre-piece of many major trials including those for the Seawolf defence missile system. Her last operational deployment was with the NATO force NAVOCFORMED, operating in the Eastern Mediterranean. HMS Penelope and her ship's company were granted the Freedom of the Borough of Blackpool, her affiliated town, and so the Freedom Scroll was returned, for safe keeping, carried from Plymouth to Blackpool by 12 runners who raised £4,000 for the British Leukaemia Research Fund. The team had been given plenty of encouragement by Miss Penelope, Gillian Robertson, who started the chanty run at the quayside in Devonport. Meanwhile HMS Penelope (only half a million miles on the clock!) joins the Defence Sales Team's list of ships up for sale. • Miss Penelope, Gillian Robertson, gives the ship's bell one last polish ably assisted by RO(1)G Kevin Teyhan.
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• HMS Penelope leads NATO ships into the port of Taranto on her last deployment with NAVOCFORMED.
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