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Career	RN Ensign

Ordered:
Laid down:	29 October 1979
Launched:	2 November 1982
Commissioned:	11 September 1985
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General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,200 tonnes
Length:	141 m (462.5 ft)
Beam:	15.2 m (50 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion:	COGOG (Combination of Gas or Gas) turbines, 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 HMA8
Motto:	Prorsum ("Onwards")

HMS Gloucester (D96) is a batch three Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. Gloucester served in the Gulf War in 1991 where her most notable action was employing her Sea Dart missiles to shoot down an Iraqi Silkworm missile that was threatening the USS Missouri (BB-63).

See HMS Gloucester for other ships of the same name.

v t e Type 42 destroyers
Royal Navy	Sheffield Birmingham Cardiff Coventry Newcastle Glasgow Exeter Southampton Nottingham Liverpool Manchester York Gloucester Edinburgh
Argentine Navy Hércules class	Hércules Santísima Trinidad
Preceded by: HMS Bristol Followed by: Type 45 destroyers
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy List of destroyers of the Argentine Navy