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HMS Cumberland and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Name | HMS Cumberland |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 12 October 1984 |
Launched | 21 June 1986 |
Commissioned | 10 June 1989 |
Decommissioned | 23 June 2011[1] |
Homeport | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
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Nickname(s) | The Fighting Sausage (after the Cumberland sausage)[3] |
Fate | Sold for scrap November 2013 |
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Class and type | Type 22 frigate |
Displacement | 5,300 tons |
Length | 148.1 m (486 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 14.8 m (48 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
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Complement | 250 (max. 301) |
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HMS Cumberland was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1986 and commissioned on 10 June 1989. The frigate was on station during the First Gulf War and was part of the Devonport Flotilla based at Devonport Dockyard. Cumberland was decommissioned on 23 June 2011.