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HMS Manchester
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	19 May 1978
Launched:	24 November 1980
Commissioned:	16 December 1982
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Template:Ship fate box active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,200 t
Length:	141 m (462.5 ft)
Beam:	15.2 m (50 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion:	COGOG (Combined Gas Or Gas). 2 shafts. 2 Olympus gas turbines producing 36 MW for high power, or 2 Tyne gas turbines for speeds up to about 22 knots.
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	287 (max 312)
Armament:	Twin Sea Dart Missile launcher 114 mm (4.5 inch) Mk 8 gun 2 x 20 mm Close range guns 2 x Vulcan Phalanx close in weapons system (CIWS) 2 x Triple anti submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers
Aircraft:	Lynx HMA8
Motto:	Sapere Aude (Dare to be wise)

The current HMS Manchester (D95) is a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer in the 5th Destroyer Squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

She was laid down in 1978 at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, launched in 1980 and commissioned in 1982. In 1991, during the Gulf War, she participated in numerous operations in the Persian Gulf, aimed at primarily upholding the trade blockade imposed on Iraq during Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. She won the lineage its newest battle honour - Persian Gulf 1991.

Manchester has recently been on a six-month deployment to the Caribbean, mainly on counter-drug operations and a display of security to Britain's Overseas Territories in the region. This deployment ended in December 2003 and culminated in a £19 million drug bust.

In 2004 Manchester acted in the role of Fleet Ready Escort (FRE). In September Manchester sailed from Portsmouth to take part in Exercise Destiny Glory O4, a large NATO exercise in the Mediterranean, as part of an RN naval task force comprising of HMS Invincible, HMS Southampton and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fort George. During the deployment Manchester visited a number of ports in the Mediterranean.

In the autumn of 2005 HMS Manchester was deployed in the Mediterranean as part of a NATO taskforce. During the four month deployment she was employed in a counter terrorist role alongside other European and American ships.

Her nickname is the "Busy Bee", from the bee emblem on the ship's crest: see Strangeways brewery/ Boddingtons.

Affiliations

• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
• Worshipful Company of World Traders
• Manchester City F.C.
• Sale R.F.C.

v t e Type 42 destroyers
Royal Navy	Sheffield Birmingham Cardiff Coventry Newcastle Glasgow Exeter Southampton Nottingham Liverpool Manchester York Gloucester Edinburgh
Argentine Navy Hércules class	Hércules Santísima Trinidad
Preceded by: HMS Bristol Followed by: Type 45 destroyers
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Aircraft carriers	Queen Elizabeth class Queen Elizabeth Prince of Wales
Submarines	Vanguard class Vanguard Victorious Vigilant Vengeance Trafalgar class Triumph Astute class Astute Ambush Artful Audacious Anson
Destroyers	Type 45 Daring Dauntless Diamond Dragon Defender Duncan
Frigates	Type 23 Argyll Lancaster Iron Duke Westminster Richmond Somerset Sutherland Kent Portland St Albans
Amphibious warfare ships	Albion-class LPD Albion Bulwark
Mine counter measures vessels	Sandown class Penzance Pembroke Bangor Hunt class Ledbury Cattistock Brocklesby Middleton Chiddingfold Hurworth
Patrol vessels	Ice patrol vessel Protector River class Severn Tyne Mersey Forth Medway Trent Tamar Spey Archer class Archer Biter Smiter Blazer Puncher Charger Ranger Trumpeter Express Example Explorer Exploit Tracker Raider Pursuer Dasher Cutlass class Cutlass Dagger
Survey vessels	Ocean survey vessel Scott Survey launch Magpie
Miscellaneous	Ship of the line Victory (flagship of the First Sea Lord)

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