HMS Dragon in 2011
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Name | Dragon |
Ordered | December 2000 |
Builder | BVT Surface Fleet |
Yard number | 1064[1] |
Laid down | 19 December 2005 |
Launched | 17 November 2008 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Susie Boissier |
Commissioned | 20 April 2012 |
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Motto | "We yield but to St George" |
Status | In refit |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type 45 Guided missile destroyer |
Displacement | 8,000[4] to 8,500 t (8,400 long tons; 9,400 short tons)[5][6][7] |
Length | 152.4 m (500 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 21.2 m (69 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)[9] |
Range | In excess of 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)[9] |
Complement | 191[10] (accommodation for up to 235) |
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HMS Dragon is the fourth ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in November 2008 and commissioned on 20 April 2012.[32]
One hundred or so miles west of the largest city of Abidjan lies the fishing port of Sassandra, too small to accommodate 8,500-tonnes of Type 45.
As well as supporting the international effort against the ISIL fundamentalists – the 8,500-tonne warship has also joined the wider security mission in the region.