HMS Nottingham (D91)

HMS Nottingham in 1998
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Nottingham
Ordered1 March 1977
BuilderVosper Thorneycroft, Woolston yard
Laid down6 February 1978
Launched18 February 1980
Sponsored byLady Leach (wife of the then First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Henry Leach)
Commissioned14 April 1983
Decommissioned11 February 2010
HomeportHMNB Portsmouth, Hampshire
Identification
MottoFoy pour devoir (French: "Faith for Duty")
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and typeType 42 destroyer
Displacement4,820 tonnes
Length125 m (410 ft)
Beam14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion
Speed30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement271 (27 officers, 71 senior rates, 173 junior rates)
Armament
Aircraft carriedWestland Lynx HMA8

HMS Nottingham was a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the city of Nottingham, England. She was launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983 as the sixth warship to bear the name.

Her commanding officer at commissioning was Commander Nigel Essenhigh (in his first major command role) who went on to become First Sea Lord.

On her first cruise to Oporto, Portugal and then Gibraltar the destroyer lost two sailors to a drowning incident while on shore leave visiting a beach in Oporto.

In November 2000, Nottingham completed a major refit, which was intended to extend her operational life to 2012, although she was later placed in reserve and decommissioned on 11 February 2010.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Final date is set for HMS Nottingham". Portsmouth News. 2 February 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bows out was invoked but never defined (see the help page).