French frigate La Motte-Picquet (D645)

La Motte-Picquet is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th Century admiral count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte. she is serving in the Persian Gulf.

On 22 August 2007, she took custody of the Danish freighter Danica White which had been captured by pirates on the 3 June.

2011/12 tour
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. On 22 January she passed through the Straits of Hormuz with the British frigate HMS Argyll (F231) and a US battlegroup centred on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72).