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D97 HMS Edinburgh Portsmouth 2004
Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 8 September 1980
Launched: 14 April 1983
Commissioned: 17 December 1985
Decommissioned:
Fate: Template:Ship fate box active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5,200 tonnes
Length: 141 m (462.5 ft)
Beam: 15.2 m (50 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion: COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines 2 xO lympus, 2 x Tyne, 2 shafts
2 turbines producing 36 MW
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement: 287
Armament: Sea Dart missiles
114 mm (4.5 in) Mk 8 gun
Aircraft: Lynx Mk 3
Motto:
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Edinburgh.

HMS Edinburgh (D97) is a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer of the Royal Navy. Edinburgh was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead. She was launched on the on 14 April 1983 and commissioned on the 17 December 1985.

In 1990, Edinburgh completed a refit, which included the fitting of the Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS). In 1994, Edinburgh was present at a Fleet Review to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1944. In 1998, Edinburgh deployed to the South Atlantic, where she patrolled the waters around the Falkland Islands, as-well as making 'fly-the-flag' visits to various South American ports.

In January 2003, Edinburgh deployed to the Persian Gulf and subsequently took part in the Second Gulf War against the dictator Saddam Hussain. While there, Edinburgh performed a variety of tasks, which included supporting the Royal Marines ashore, as-well as being escort to the helicopter carrier Ocean. She returned to Portsmouth, where she is based, in May. Later that year, on the 27th September, Edinburgh sailed into the River Mersey to escort the yachts at the end of the Round The World Clipper Race.

In April 2004, Edinburgh deployed to the Mediterranean, where she first joined Standing Naval Force Mediterranean (STANAVFORMED), and while there, Edinburgh will take part in Operation Active Endeavour, designed to monitor sea lanes as part of the War on Terror.

On her return to the UK Edinburgh went into an extensive refit in Rosyth. She left Rosyth in September 2005 to conduct trials to ensure that she was up to materially up to operational standard before going to the FOST organisation for Operational Sea Training in the new year. Since then Edinburgh has taken part in Exercise Neptune Warrior off the coast of Scotland; conducted a High Seas Firing of her Sea-Dart missile system and then took part in the multi-national BALTOPS exercise in the Baltic Sea. The time in the Baltic included visits to Sweden, Germany and Estonia.

File:HMS Edinburgh, Capetown.jpg
Cape Town, 2006

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