The ship was originally called Faramarz, named after a character in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

[2] The Iranian Navy ship was sunk in Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988.

A pair of Rockeye cluster bombs from the aircraft and a single Harpoon from the destroyer USS Joseph Strauss finished the destruction of the ship.

[3] 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 660 feet (200 metres) of water southwest of Larak Island.

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