HMS Cardiff
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Three ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Cardiff''''', after the [[Wales|Welsh]] capital city, [[Cardiff]]:
* [[HMS Cardiff (1652)|HMS ''Cardiff'']] was a 34-gun ship, previously the Dutch ship ''Fortune''. She was captured in [[1652]] by [[HMS Tiger (1647)|HMS ''Tiger'']] and was sold in 1658.
* [[HMS Cardiff (1917)|HMS ''Cardiff'']] was a [[C class cruiser|C class]] [[light cruiser]] launched in [[1917]] and broken up in [[1946]].
* [[HMS Cardiff (D108)|HMS ''Cardiff'']] was a [[Type 42]] (Batch 1) [[destroyer#Modern destroyers|destroyer]] launched in 1974. She was involved in the [[Falklands War|Falklands]] and [[Gulf War]]s and participated in the build up to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. She was decommissioned in 2005, and is currently awaiting disposal.
The ships' motto is "Agris in cardine rerum" which translates as "Keen in emergency".
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