HMS Gloucester (D96)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Gloucester.

HMS Gloucester
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Gloucester
BuilderVosper Thornycroft[1]
Laid down29 October 1979
Launched2 November 1982[1]
Sponsored byThe Duchess of Gloucester
Commissioned11 September 1985
Decommissioned30 June 2011[2]
HomeportHMNB Portsmouth
Identification
MottoProrsum ("Onwards")
Nickname(s)"The Fighting G"
FateSold for scrap
Badge
  • On a Field Blue a Trident White enfiled by a horseshoe gold
General characteristics
Class and typeType 42 destroyer
Displacement5,200 tonnes
Length141 m (463 ft)
Beam15.2 m (50 ft)
Propulsion
  • COGOG (Combination of Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
  • 2 turbines producing 36 MW (48,000 hp)
Speed30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement287
Armament
Aircraft carried
  • 1 x Lynx HMA8 armed with
    • 4 × anti ship missiles
    • 2 × anti submarine torpedoes

HMS Gloucester was a Batch 3 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Vosper Thorneycroft at Woolston, Southampton and launched on 2 November 1982 by The Duchess of Gloucester. Gloucester was one of the modified last four of the class to be built, having a lengthened hull design giving better seakeeping qualities, greater endurance and an external 'strake' to counter longitudinal cracking, seen on earlier ships of the type.

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  2. ^ "A sad day for Cornwall and Gloucester". Navy News. [dead link‍]
  3. ^ "Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-20.