D-91 Nottingham

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Type 42B, [DDG].

Builder: Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston, U.K.

Launch date: 18 February 1980.

Commission date: 14 April 1984.

Decommission date: 11 February 2010.

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: GZIR ()

Comment: On the 7th of july 2002, it ran into some rocks off Lord Howe island, in the Tasmanian sea. The incident resulted in some sections of the ship flooded with water, that could have been fatal to the ship, but finally, and after two days of common efforts between units of the australian and new zealand navies, the ship was salvaged and towed into the Newcastle port, in Australia. No casualties in the incident.

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