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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 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]

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  The F70 type frigates are equipped with a Variable Depth Sonar type DUBV43 or DUBV43C.
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  Operational Center of La Motte-Picquet (7 February 2001).
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  Gunnery crew of La Motte-Picquet, in front of the Crotale anti-air missile launcher
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  Shooting exercises with an ANF1, from the bridge.
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  WEAPONS crew of La Motte-Picquet.
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  Patch of La Motte Picquet.
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  La Motte-Picquet in Cobh, Ireland, 12 June 2014.
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  La Motte-Picquet in Cobh, Ireland, 12 June 2014.

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