SPS Blas de Lezo F103 Guided Missile Frigate Spanish Navy

Spanish Navy / Armada Española - Guided Missile Frigate
F 103 SPS Blas de Lezo

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Type, class: Guided Missile Frigate; Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class
Builder: Izar Shipbuilding, Ferrol, Spain

STATUS:
Awarded: January 31, 1997
Laid down: ?
Launched: May 16, 2003
Commissioned: December 16, 2004
IN SERVICE

Homeport: Ferrol
Namesake: Admiral Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (1689-1741)
Ships Motto: ORNATUS MEI ARMA SUNT REQUIES MEA PUGNARE (my harnesses are my weapons, fight is my rest)
Technical Data: see INFO > Alvaro de Bazan (F100) class Guided Missile Frigate

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MAIN OPERATIONS AND EXERCISES:

Flagship of SNMG-2 in 2006.
Integration into the ‘Charles de Gaulle’ carrier task group during Exercise AGAPANTHE 07 in the Mediterranean and Red Sea in 2007.
Flagship of SNMG-1 in 2008.
Participation in Operation ‘Allied Protector’ against piracy off the Somali coast in 2009.
Integration into the ‘Charles de Gaulle’ carrier task group during Exercise BRILLIANT MARINER 10 in the North Sea in 2010.
Operational Certification (MECO) in Toulon waters (France in 2011).
Integration into the ‘Einsenhower’ carrier strike group during the C2X (Composite Training Unit Exercises) manoeuvers in 2012.
Flagship of SNMG-2 in 2013.
First Spanish Navy ship to integrate into the New National Command of Air Operations and Defense (MDOA) in 2014.
Presentation of the Battle Ensign ceremony in Bilbao.
Integration into the SNMG-2 in 2017.
Integration into the TG 830.01 as escort to the LHD ‘Juan Carlos I’ during Operation ISPUHEL.
Integration into the SNMG-2 in 2019.
Training with the ‘Charles de Gaulle’ carrier strike group in 2019.
Integration into SNMG-2 in January 2022.
Participation in exercise ‘Eagle Eye 22-03’.
Integration into the DEDALO-23 Expeditionary Task Force.
Flagship of STRIKFORNATO during the exercise ‘Formidable Shield-23.
Deployment with the DEDALO-24 Expeditionary Task Force.
Participation in Exercises EAGLE EYE 24-03 and EAGLE EYE 25-02 integrated into the MDOA.
Deployments of DEDALO-25.1 and DEDALO 25.2

Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (February 3, 1689 - September 7, 1741)

... was a Spanish admiral best remembered for the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741) in modern-day Colombia, where Spanish imperial forces under his command resisted a siege by a large British invasion fleet under Admiral Edward Vernon.

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