HMS Cumberland (F85)

HMS Cumberland

Ship data flag  United Kingdom Ship type frigate class Broadsword class Shipyard Yarrow Shipbuilders , Glasgow Launch June 21, 1986 Commissioning June 10, 1989 Decommissioning June 23, 2011

Ship dimensions and crew length 148.1 m ( Lüa ) width 14.8 m Draft Max. 6.4 m displacement 5,300 tons   crew 250 to 301 men

Machine system machine COGAG 2 Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne gas turbines Machine performance 47,240 hp (34,745 kW) Top speed 32 kn (59 km / h) propeller 2

Armament 2 × Sea Wolf anti-aircraft missiles 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon 1 × 11.4 cm L / 55 Mk8 Sk 6 × torpedo tube 2 × 2.0 cm gun 1 × 3.0 cm goalkeeper 2 × Super Lynx or. 1 × Sea King

The HMS Cumberland is a frigate of the Royal Navy . The focus is on fighting submarines. She is the 16th warship in the Royal Navy to bear this name and belongs to the Broadsword class .

history

The ship, commissioned in 1989, was built in Scotland. The maximum speed is 32  knots . In the early 1990s, Timothy Laurence , Princess Anne's husband , was in command of the ship.

At the end of October 2005, the Cumberland brought a speedboat with two tons of cocaine on board and an estimated market value of almost 300 million euros after a chase off the coast of Nicaragua .

After an increasing number of pirate attacks off the Somali coast , the ship was underway in the Horn of Africa on behalf of NATO from autumn 2008 . In November 2008, the Cumberland stopped a Somali pirate boat. This resulted in a firefight between the boat and the frigate, in which three pirates were killed.

During the uprising in Libya in February 2011 , the Cumberland was retreating from the Persian Gulf and sent to international waters off the coast of the North African country to help evacuate British citizens.

The Cumberland brought 200 workers from Libya to Malta on February 28, 2011. She entered the port of Valletta .

Web links

Commons : HMS Cumberland (F85)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Drugs bust 'a sledgehammer blow' ( English ) BBC News. November 1, 2005. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
2. ↑ Navy shoots pirate suspects dead , BBC. November 12, 2008. 
3. ↑ Libya unrest: UK plans to charter plane for Britons ( English ) BBC News. February 22, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.