HMS Southampton (D90)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 21 October 1976 |
| Launched: | 29 June 1979 |
| Commissioned: | 31 October 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| 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: | Sea Dart missiles 4.5 in (114 mm) Mk 8 gun |
| Aircraft: | Lynx HMA8 |
| Motto: | Pro jusititus pro Rege ("For justice and the Queen") |
HMS Southampton (D90) is a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy.
She was named after the city of Southampton, England, and built by Vosper Thornycroft, in Southampton.
On Saturday 3rd of September, 1988, serving on the Armilla Patrol, she was involved in a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in the convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz.
On February 3, 2006 the ship was involved in the seizing of 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean. [1]
See HMS Southampton for other ships of the same name.
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| Type 42 destroyer |
| Royal Navy |
| Sheffield | Birmingham | Newcastle | Glasgow | Cardiff | Coventry | Exeter | Southampton | Nottingham | Liverpool | Manchester | Gloucester | Edinburgh | York |
| Argentine Navy |
| Hércules | Santísima Trinidad |
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy |
