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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Edinburgh (D97) |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Cammell Laird |
| Laid down | 8 September 1980 |
| Launched | 14 April 1983 |
| Commissioned | 17 December 1985 |
| Fate | Template:Ship fate box active in service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Type 42 destroyer |
| Displacement | 5,200 tonnes |
| Length | 141 m (462.5 ft) |
| Beam | 15.2 m (50 ft) |
| Propulsion | list error: <br /> list (help) COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 x Olympus, 2 x Tyne, 2 shafts 2 turbines producing 36 MW |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement | 287 |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) Twin Sea Dart missile launcher 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS) |
| Aircraft carried | Lynx Mk 3 |
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. The largest of the Type 42 destroyers, HMS Edinburgh is known as the "Fortress of the Sea".
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.
On the 27 September 2002, Edinburgh sailed into the River Mersey to escort the yachts at the end of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
In January 2003, Edinburgh deployed to the Persian Gulf and subsequently took part in the Second Gulf War against the dictator Saddam Hussein. 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.
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.
Distinctive appearance
Edinburgh can readily be distinguished by her distinctively different forecastle. When it was decided to fit Phalanx CIWS to the class, it was intended that Edinburgh should carry a single unit, mounted forward between the 4.5" gun and the Sea Dart launcher. To this end, her breakwaters were enlarged and she was fitted with a raised bulwark, very like those carried on the Type 22 class.
This proved to be an unsuitable location for the CIWS, and Edinburgh was later fitted with a pair of wing-mounted CIWS as carried by the other ships of the class, but she retains her distinctive bulwark and enlarged breakwaters (see photo).
Affiliations
References
- "Clipper returns". BBC Liverpool. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
External link
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