![]() HMS Richmond, 2013
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Name | HMS Richmond |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | December 1989 |
Builder | Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom |
Laid down | 16 February 1992 |
Launched | 6 April 1993 |
Sponsored by | Lady Hill-Norton |
Commissioned | 22 June 1995 |
Refit | LIFEX 2017-2019 |
Homeport | HMNB Devonport, Plymouth |
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Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Type 23 Frigate |
Displacement | 4,900 t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)[1] |
Length | 133 m (436 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
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Speed | In excess of 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 7,500 nautical miles (14,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Complement | 185 (accommodation for up to 205) |
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HMS Richmond is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 6 April 1993 by Lady Hill-Norton, wife of the late Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, and was the last warship to be built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders. She sailed from the builders on the River Tyne in November 1994. She is named for the Dukedom of Richmond.