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HMS Liverpool (D92)

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Career RN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 5 July 1978
Launched: 25 September 1980
Commissioned: 1 July 1982
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 4,820 tonnes
Length: 125 m (410 ft)
Beam: 14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught:
Propulsion: COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
2 turbines producing 36 MW
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement: 287
Armament: Twin Sea Dart Missile launcher

4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 x 20 mm Oerlikon guns
2 x Vulcan Phalanx close in weapons system (CIWS)
2 x Triple anti submarine torpedo tubes
NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers

Aircraft: Lynx HMA8
Motto:

The seventh, and current HMS Liverpool (D92) is the 10th of 14 Type 42 destroyers. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched on the 25th September in 1980 by Lady Strathcona , wife of the then Minister of State for Defence.

Liverpool fired what is believed to be the first salvo of Sea Dart missiles in well over a decade, along with possibly the second only salvo ever. The firing took place approximately 250 miles south-west of the Isles of Scilly on 8 September 2002, against a sea skimming target. Liverpool proved the potency and effectiveness of the Sea Dart missile, despite its age, as well as Liverpool's systems, after she had been in an eighteen month refit at Rosyth Royal Dockyard .

The ship has been involved in many of the nations operations since her commissioning. She took part in the Royal Navy Task force that was sent to the Persian Gulf for the 2003 Iraq War, that had been initially assembled for operations in the Far East, which is a regular deployment every three years. HMS Liverpool remains a proud and powerful warship of the Royal Navy, battling on faithfully, along with her crew, regardless of age.

See HMS Liverpool for other ships of the name.

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