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|Displacement: |Displacement:
|5,200 tonnes |5,200 t
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|Length: |Length:
|462.5 feet |141 m (462.5 ft)
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|Beam: |Beam:
|50 feet |15.2 m (50 ft)
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|Draught: |Draught:
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|Propulsion: |Propulsion:
|COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts <br>2 turbines producing 36MW |COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts <br>2 turbines producing 36 MW
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|Speed: |Speed:
|30 knots |30 knots (56 km/h)
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|Range: |Range:
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|Complement: |Complement:
|287 |287 (max 312)
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|Armament: |Armament:
|Sea Dart missiles<br>4.5-in Mk 8 gun |Twin Sea Dart Missile launcher<br>
⚫ 114 mm (4.5 inch) Mk 8 gun<br>
⚫ 2 x 20 mm Close range guns<br>
⚫ 2 x Vulcan Phalanx close in weapons system (CIWS)<br>
⚫ 2 x Triple anti submarine torpedo tubes<br>
NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers
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|Aircraft: |Aircraft:
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'''Type 42 (Batch 3) Characteristics''' '''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''': * '''Armament''':
** Twin Sea Dart missile launcher
⚫ ** 4.5 inch (114mm) Mk 8 Gun
⚫ ** 2 x 20mm ] Close-range guns
⚫ ** 2 ] close-in weapons system (CIWS)
⚫ ** 2 X Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes
** ] Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy launchers ** ] Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy launchers
* '''Aircraft''': ] helicopters: * '''Aircraft''': ] helicopters:
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*** Mk 11 depth charges *** Mk 11 depth charges
*** Machine guns *** Machine guns
* '''Propulsion''': Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) turbines, 2 shafts 2 turbines producing 36MW


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Revision as of 21:33, 25 April 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 t
Length: 141 m (462.5 ft)
Beam: 15.2 m (50 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion: COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
2 turbines producing 36 MW
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:

The current HMS Manchester (D95) is a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer. 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 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 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 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

Type 42 destroyers
 Royal Navy
 Argentine Navy
Hércules class