HMS Glamorgan (D19)
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| Keel laying: | September 13, 1962 |
| Launch: | July 9, 1964 |
| Commissioning: | October 11, 1966 |
| Decommissioning: | 1986 |
| Whereabouts: | Sold to Chile in September 1986 |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 5530 t in use: 6300 t |
| Length: | 159 m (520 ft) |
| Width: | 16.2 m (53 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.2 m 10 ft (5 in) |
| Drive: | Combined gas and steam turbines (COSAG) 4 gas turbines with 30,000 HP and 2 steam turbines with 30,000 HP, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 30 kn (56 km / h) |
| Range: | 4000 nm at 28 kn |
| Crew: | 471 |
| Armament: | 4 Exocet missiles starter 2 quadruple starter for Seacat - antiaircraft missiles 1 dual starter for Sea Slug -Flugabwehrraketen aft 2 torpedo tubes 1 × 114 mm (4.5 in) twin gun 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon |
| Board helicopter : | 1 Westland Wessex |
The HMS Glamorgan (D19) was a British destroyer of the County class .
The Glamorgan was built at Vickers-Armstrong in Newcastle upon Tyne . It is named after the Welsh County Glamorgan .
In 1982 she took part in the Falklands War. On the night of 14./15. May she supported the attack on Pebble Island together with HMS Broadsword . On June 12, the ship was badly damaged in an attack by an Exocet fired from a truck . 13 soldiers were killed and several wounded, some seriously. Repairs were carried out at sea.
In 1986 she was sold to the Navy of Chile as Almirante Latorre . From 1986 to 1998 in the service of the Chilean Navy; it sank on April 11, 2005 in the South Pacific on the way to demolition.
Individual evidence
- ↑ HMS Glamorgan Chart. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
Web links
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