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HMS Manchester
Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 19 May 1978
Launched: 24 November 1980
Commissioned: 16 December 1982
Decommissioned:
Fate: Template: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.

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

See HMS Manchester for other ships of the name.

Type 42 destroyers
 Royal Navy
 Argentine Navy
Hércules class
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