HMS Exeter (D89)

HMS Exeter in the River Thames, sailing downstream past Limehouse, London.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Exeter
Builder	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down	22 July 1976
Launched	25 April 1978
Sponsored by	Lady Joan Mulley
Commissioned	19 September 1980
Decommissioned	27 May 2009[1]
Homeport	Portsmouth
Identification	Pennant number: D89 IMO number: 4907036
Motto	Semper Fidelis ("Always faithful")
Honours and awards	Falkland Islands 1982 Kuwait 1991.
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 tonnes
Length	125 metres (410 ft)
Beam	14.3 metres (47 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) configuration, 2 shafts 2 x Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B Gas Turbines (25000shp each) and 2 x Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C Gas Turbines (5340bhp each) producing 36 MW (48,000 hp)
Speed	28.7 knots (53.2 km/h; 33.0 mph)
Range	1900Nm at full speed. 4200Mn at optimal speed
Complement	287
Time to activate	4 hours
Armament	Sea Dart missiles (removed as of November 2007) 4.5-inch (113 mm) Mk 8 gun
Armour	none
Aircraft carried	Lynx HMA8
Notes	Batch 2A version of Type 42 Destroyer

HMS Exeter was a Type 42 destroyer, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named Exeter, after the city of Exeter in Devon. The vessel fought in the Falklands War and the first Gulf War, she was scrapped in 2011.