Italian frigate Perseo
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}} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:Fregata Perseo.jpg | Ship caption = Perseo underway in 1980s. }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship country = Italy | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Italy|naval}} | Ship name = Perseo | Ship namesake = Perseo | Ship builder = Fincantieri, Riva Trigoso, Genoa | Ship laid down = 28 February 1977 | Ship launched = 12 July 1978 | Ship commissioned = 1 March 1980 | Ship recommissioned = | Ship decommissioned = 2003 | Ship homeport = La Spezia | Ship identification = *Pennant number: F 566 | Ship motto =*Vincera' chi vorrà vincere | Ship nickname = | Ship honours = | Ship captured = | Ship fate = Sold to Peruvian Navy | Ship notes = | Ship badge = }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title | Ship country = Peru | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Peru|naval}} | Ship name = Coronel Bolognesi | Ship namesake = Colonel Francisco Bolognesi | Ship builder = Fincatieri, Riva Trigoso, Genoa | Ship laid down = | Ship launched = | Ship acquired = | Ship homeport = Callao | Ship identification = *Pennant number: FM-57 | Ship motto = Valiente y Audaz | Ship status = Active | Ship commissioned = 31 October 2005 }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Carvajal-class frigate | Ship displacement = 2,206 tonnes (2,525 tonnes full load) | Ship length = * {{convert|113.2|m|ftin|abbr=on}} overall
| Ship beam = {{convert|11.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = {{convert|3.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = *2-shaft CODOG system
| Ship speed = | Ship range = {{convert|4350|nmi|km|0|abbr=on|lk=in}} at {{convert|16|kn|km/h|0}} | Ship endurance = | Ship complement = 199 (22 officers) | Ship sensors = * Selenia IPN-10 action data automation (CMS)
| Ship EW = | Ship armament = * 4 Exocet MM40 Block 3 SSMs
| Ship armour = | Ship aircraft = * 1 AB-212ASW helicopter or
| Ship aircraft facilities = Fixed hangar for 1 medium helicopter | Ship notes = }} |
Perseo (F 566) is the third ship of the Lupo-class frigate of the Italian Navy. She was sold to Peruvian Navy in the 2000s.{{Cite web|title=Artigliere Class Light Frigates - Naval Technology|url=https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/lupo/|access-date=2020-09-29|website=www.naval-technology.com}}
Coronel Bolognesi (FM-57) is one of eight Carvajal-class frigates of the Peruvian Navy.
Construction and career
=Italian service=
{{other ships|Italian ship Perseo}}
The ship initially built for the Italian Navy and was named Perseo with a pennant of F 566. The ship was laid down on 28 February 1977, was launched on 12 July 1978 by the shipyard Riva Trigoso and commissioned in the Italian Navy on 1 March 1980.{{Cite web|title=Lupo class Frigate Italian Navy Marina Militare Italiana|url=http://www.seaforces.org/marint/Italian-Navy/Frigate/Lupo-class.htm|access-date=2020-09-29|website=www.seaforces.org}}
At the beginning of the 1980s the ship took part, in September 1982, in the ITALCON mission for peace operations in Lebanon, as part of the UN mission UNIFIL. At the end of the decade the ship was then engaged in the Persian Gulf, during the Iran-Iraq conflict. Sailing in hostile waters are very dangerous and the Italian motor ship Jolly Rubino, attacked by the Iranian, this prompted the Navy to send a contingent to the area, made up of frigates, logistic units and minesweepers engaged in escort operations on the ship merchant and landmine clearance.
In 2003, Perseo was decommissioned and transferred to the Navy of Peru.
=Peruvian service=
{{other ships|BAP Coronel Bolognesi}}
She was commissioned on 31 October 2005. For its commissioning process, Coronel Bolognesi sailed from the port of La Spezia in the Mediterranean Sea, across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Pacific Ocean via the Panama Canal, and south to its base in Callao.
On 30 September 2021, Bolognesi successfully test fired the Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missile for the first time since its introduction to Peruvian Navy in 2016.{{cite web |last1=Tantalean |first1=Cesar Cruz |title=Peruvian Navy successfully test-fires Exocet Block 3 missiles for the first time |url=https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/weapons/peruvian-navy-successfully-test-fires-exocet-block-3-missiles-for-the-first-time |website=Janes |publisher=Janes |access-date=14 October 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.marina.difesa.it/noi-siamo-la-marina/mezzi/mezzi-storici/Pagine/fregate_mis/perseo_fre_mis.aspx Perseo (F 566)] Marina Militare website
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{{Lupo class frigate}}
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Category:Carvajal-class frigates
Category:Ships built by Fincantieri