LÉ Grainne
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsLÉ Gráinne (CM10) was a Template:Sclass2 in the Irish Naval Service. She was the former Template:HMS. She was named after Gráinne, a legendary princess who was promised to Fionn Mac Cumhail but ran away with his young follower Diarmuid.
Oulston was purchased from the Royal Navy in December 1970 and entered Irish service in January 1971.<ref name="milhist">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The purchase coincided with the removal from service of the Irish Naval Service's only fisheries protection vessel, LÉ Maev.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> The official naming ceremony for the LÉ Gráinne was held in February 1971.<ref name="McIvor">Template:Cite book</ref>
Involved in fisheries protection,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> she was stricken in 1987 and sold to a Spanish company for breaking.<ref name="milhist"/>
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