Iranian frigate Sahand () was a British-made Vosper Mark V class frigate (also known as the ) commissioned as part of a four-ship order. The ship was originally called Faramarz, named after a character in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution it was renamed Sahand, after the Sahand volcano. Construction On 10 May 1970, she was damaged by fire while fitting out. Service history The Iranian Navy ship was sunk in Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988. Located by two American A-6E Intruders of Attack Squadron VA-95 steaming roughly southwest of Larak Island, she was hit by two Harpoon missiles and four AGM-123 Skipper II laser-guided missiles. A pair of Rockeye cluster bombs from the aircraft and a single Harpoon from the destroyer finished the destruction of the ship. Left heavily aflame, dead in the water and listing to port, Sahand burned for several hours before fires reached her ammunition magazines and they detonated, sinking her in over of water southwest of Larak Island. 45 members of her crew were killed. Iran has commissioned a named Sahand in memory of the original Sahand. See also List of ships sunk by missiles List of Imperial Iranian Navy vessels in 1979 Notes References Alvand-class frigates Ships built in Southampton 1969 ships Shipwrecks in the Persian Gulf Maritime incidents in 1988 Ships sunk by US aircraft Frigates sunk by aircraft Iran–Iraq War naval ships of Iran Naval magazine explosions