HMS Southampton (D90)
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| Keel laying: | October 21, 1976 |
| Launch: | June 29, 1979 |
| Commissioning: | October 31, 1981 |
| Decommissioning: | February 12, 2009 |
| Whereabouts: | in Portsmouth launched |
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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 |
The HMS Southampton (D90) is a Royal Navy destroyer and belongs to the Sheffield class .
history
The ship was laid down by Vosper Thornycroft in 1976 and launched three years later. In October 1981 the Southampton was officially put into service. The test drives of the destroyer were shortened in order to be able to use it in the Falklands War , which it ultimately did not. Instead, the Southampton was assigned to the Armilla Patrol , the permanent operational unit of the Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf . When the Southampton 1,988 freighters through the Strait of Hormuz escorted, the container ship rammed MV Tor Bay to Southampton and damaged it severely. It was not until 1991 that the ship left the Swan Hunter shipyard after repairs.
In 1998/1999 an overhaul took place at Babcock Rosyth Defense , another in 2002/2003. Right before the last overhaul, the Southampton sailed with the American aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) as well as the British HMS Illustrious (R06) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom . In 2006, the ship was sailing in the Caribbean, where Southampton was seizing drugs worth £ 350 million when it seized the container ship MV Rampage . On July 31, 2008, the HMS Southampton was assigned to the reserve and finally retired on February 12, 2009.
Web links
- Official Homepage (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 3peaks.org.uk ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.)
- ↑ BBC: UK ships seize £ 350m drugs cache , February 3, 2006 (Eng.)
- ↑ Royal Navy: HMS Southampton Bows Out , February 11, 2009
