HMS Devonshire (D02)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 9 March 1959 |
| Launched: | 10 June 1960 |
| Commissioned: | 15 November 1962 |
| Decommissioned: | 1978 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target on 17 July 1984. |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,440 tonnes (6,850 tonnes full load) |
| Length: | 158.6 m |
| Beam: | 53 ft |
| Draught: | 20 ft |
| Propulsion: | COSAG (Combination of Steam and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 31.5 knots max |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles (6500 km) |
| Complement: | 470 |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 Sea Slug Mk2 SAM (36 missiles); 2 x 4 Sea Cat GWS21 SAM (60 missiles); 4 x 4.5 in (114 mm) /45 DP (2 x 2); 2 x 20 mm AA; 6 x 324 mm torpedo tubes (2 x 3) ASW; |
| Aircraft: | Lynx or Wessex |
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HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first unit of the County-class destroyers and the first Batch 1 ship of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead near Liverpool. With a displacement of 5,440 tonnes (6,850 tonnes full load), Devonshire was named after the English county of Devon. She was launched on June 10, 1960 and delivered to the navy two years later.
The ship was involved in patrol duties in the Persian Gulf and the Caribbean, but was not involved in any armed conflict of the United Kingdom. Like the other first batch of County Class ships, Devonshire was fitted with the Sea Slug anti aircraft missile defence system.
Devonshire was decommissioned under defence cuts in 1978. Laid up in Portsmouth harbour for six years, the ship was sunk by Sea Harriers as a target on 17 July 1984 in the North Atlantic.
[edit] See also
- HMS Devonshire for other ships of the same name
- List of ship launches in 1960
- List of ship commissionings in 1962
- List of ship decommissionings in 1978
- List of shipwrecks in 1984
| County-class destroyer |
| Devonshire | Hampshire | London | Kent | Fife | Glamorgan | Antrim | Norfolk |
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy |
