D-90 Southampton

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Type 42B, [DDG].

Builder: Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston, U.K.

Launch date: 29 January 1979.

Commission date: 23 July 1981.

Decommission date: 12 February 2009.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.500 standard, 4.100 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 125 x 14,3 x 5,8

Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.000 hp ), 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 29.

Range ( miles ): 4.000 at 18 knots.

Complement: 253 ( 24 officers ), but the total amount could rise up to 312.

Guns: 1 x Vickers 114mm/55 Mk8, 4 x Oerlikon/BMARC GAM-B01 20mm, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 22 x British Aerospace Sea Dart, in a double mount at the bow.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm Plessey STWS Mk 2 ( 2 triple tubes ). Marconi Stingray.

Radar: Air: Marconi/Signaal Type 1022, D band, 265km range. Air/Surface: Plessey Type 996, E/F bands; Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006, I band; Fire Control: 2 x Marconi Type 909 or 9091, I/J bands.

Sonar: Ferranti/Thomson Sintra Type 2050, hull mounted, active search and attack modes. Kelvin Hughes Type 162M, hull mounted.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Sea Gnat . Towed torpedo decoy Graseby Type 182; ESM/ECM: MEL UUA-2 ( interceptor ), Type 675 ( jammer ).

Helicopter: 1 x Westland Lynx HMA 3/8.

Callsign: GVUK ()

Homeport: Portsmouth.

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