HMS Gloucester (D96)
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| Keel laying: | October 29, 1979 |
| Launch: | 2nd November 1982 |
| Commissioning: | September 11, 1985 |
| Decommissioning: | June 30, 2011 |
| Whereabouts: | off-duty |
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| Displacement : | Construction: 3200 t in use: 4166 t maximum: 4820 ts |
| Length: | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Width: | 14.3 m (47 ft) |
| Draft: | 5.8 m |
| Drive: | 4 Rolls-Royce gas turbines : 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B à 18 MW and 2 Tyne RM1A à 3 MW (for travel up to 18 kn) |
| Speed: | 30 kn (56 km / h) |
| Crew: | 287 |
| Armament: | 1 twin starter for Sea Dart 1 114 mm (4.5 in) Mk-8 gun |
HMS Gloucester (D96) is a Royal Navy destroyer and belongs to the Sheffield class .
history
The Gloucester was laid down by Vosper Thorneycroft in 1979 and was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1985.
During the Second Gulf War , the destroyer was used in the Persian Gulf. When the combat group around the USS Missouri (BB-63) was attacked by an Iraqi Silkworm marine target missile in February 1991 , the Gloucester shot it down about 600 meters from the Missouri . He had previously been missed by the American frigate USS Jarrett (FFG-33) . The launch using the Sea-Dart system was the first ever launch of an anti-ship missile by an anti-aircraft missile in an emergency.
In 2006, Gloucester and HMS Illustrious (R06) were involved in the evacuation of British civilians from the crisis area of the Lebanon War as part of Operation Highbrow .
After the Gloucester had finished her farewell visit from May 5 to 10, 2011 in her home port of Avonmouth, she was decommissioned on June 30, 2011 in Portsmouth and is now to be scrapped in Aliağa .
Web links
- Gloucester on royalnavy.mod.uk (English)