HMS Cumberland (F85)

HMS Cumberland and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
RN EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Cumberland
OperatorRoyal Navy
BuilderYarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down12 October 1984
Launched21 June 1986
Commissioned10 June 1989
Decommissioned23 June 2011[1]
HomeportHMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification
Motto
  • Latin Justitia Tenax
  • ("Tenacious of Justice")
Nickname(s)The Fighting Sausage (after the Cumberland sausage)[3]
FateSold for scrap November 2013
BadgeShip's badge
General characteristics
Class and typeType 22 frigate
Displacement5,300 tons
Length148.1 m (486 ft 9 in)
Beam14.8 m (48 ft 6 in)
Draught6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (cruise)
  • 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (max)
Complement250 (max. 301)
Armament
Aircraft carried
  • 2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peacetime).
  • Armed with
    • 4 × Sea Skua anti-shipping missiles
    • 2 × Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes
    • 2 × Mk 11 depth charges
    • 2 × Machine guns

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.

  1. ^ "HMS Cumberland decommissioned in Plymouth by Royal Navy". BBC News. 23 June 2011.
  2. ^ "Royal Navy Bridge Card, February 2009" (PDF). Retrieved 20 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Fighting Sausage "bows out in style"". Archived from the original on 20 April 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Royal Navy Major Surface Vessels". Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2010.