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⚫ <tr><th style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;">'''Career'''</th><th style="background:navy;align:right;">]</th></tr>
⚫ !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
<tr><td>Ordered:</td><td></td></tr>
⚫ !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|]
<tr><td>Laid down:</td><td>9 May 1978</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Launched:</td><td>24 November 1980</td></tr>
|Ordered:
<tr><td>Commissioned:</td><td>16 December 1982</td></tr>
|
<tr><td>Decommissioned:</td><td></td></tr>
|-
<tr><td>Fate:</td><td></td></tr>
|Laid down:
<tr><td>Struck:</td><td></td></tr>
|5 July 1978
⚫ <tr><th colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;">'''General Characteristics'''</th></tr>
|-
<tr><td>Displacement:</td><td>5,200 tonnes</td></tr>
|Launched:
<tr><td>Length:</td><td>462 feet 6 inches</td></tr>
|25 September 1980
<tr><td>Beam:</td><td>50 feet</td></tr>
|-
<tr><td>Draught:</td><td></td></tr>
|Commissioned:
⚫ <tr><td>Propulsion:</td><td>COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts <br>2 turbines producing 36MW </td></tr>
|16 December 1982
<tr><td>Speed:</td><td>30 knots</td></tr>
|-
<tr><td>Range:</td><td></td></tr>
|Decommissioned:
<tr><td>Complement:</td><td>287</td></tr>
|
<tr><td>Aircraft:</td><td></td></tr>
|-
<tr><td>Motto:</td><td></td></tr>
|Fate:
</table>
|In service
|-
|Struck:
|
|-
!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
|-
|Displacement:
|5,200 tonnes
|-
|Length:
|462.5 feet
|-
|Beam:
|50 feet
|-
|Draught:
|
|-
|Propulsion:
⚫ |COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts <br>2 turbines producing 36MW
|-
|Speed:
|30 knots
|-
|Range:
|
|-
|Complement:
|287
|-
|Armament:
|Sea Dart missiles<br>4.5-in Mk 8 gun
|-
|Aircraft:
|] HMA8
|-
|Motto:
|
|}


The current '''''HMS Manchester (D95)''''' is a ] (Batch 3) destroyer. She was laid down in ], launched in ] and commissioned in ]. In ], during the ], she participated in numerous operations in the ], aimed at primarily upholding the trade blockade imposed on ] during ]'s invasion of ]. She won the lineage it's newest battle honour - Persian Gulf ]. The current '''''HMS Manchester (D95)''''' is a ] (Batch 3) destroyer. She was laid down in ], launched in ] and commissioned in ]. In ], during the ], she participated in numerous operations in the ], aimed at primarily upholding the trade blockade imposed on ] during ]'s invasion of ]. She won the lineage it's newest battle honour - Persian Gulf ].

Revision as of 04:01, 26 February 2004

Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 5 July 1978
Launched: 25 September 1980
Commissioned: 16 December 1982
Decommissioned:
Fate: In service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 5,200 tonnes
Length: 462.5 feet
Beam: 50 feet
Draught:
Propulsion: COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
2 turbines producing 36MW
Speed: 30 knots
Range:
Complement: 287
Armament: Sea Dart missiles
4.5-in Mk 8 gun
Aircraft: Lynx HMA8
Motto:

The current HMS Manchester (D95) is a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer. She was laid down in 1978, 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 Hussain's invasion of Kuwait. She won the lineage it's newest battle honour - Persian Gulf 1991.

Manchester has recently been on a six-month deployment to the Carribean, 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 pounds drug bust. Manchester is now docked at Portsmouth with other ships of the 5th Destroyer Squadron.

See HMS Manchester for other ships of the name.

Type 42 (Batch 3) Characteristics

  • Displacement: 5,200 tonnes
  • Length: 141 metres/462.5 feer
  • Beam: 15.2 metres/50 feet
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Complement: 287 (Maximum 301)
  • Armament:
    • Twin Sea Dart missile launcher
    • 4.5 inch (114mm) Mk 8 Gun
    • 2 x 20mm Oerlikon Close-range guns
    • 2 Vulcan Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS)
    • 2 X Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes
    • NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy launchers
  • Aircraft: Lynx Mk 8 helicopters:
  • Propulsion: Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) turbines, 2 shafts 2 turbines producing 36MW
Type 42 destroyers
 Royal Navy
 Argentine Navy
Hércules class