HMS Sutherland (F81)

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HMS Sutherland at Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2004
HMS Sutherland at Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2004
Career RN Ensign
Ordered: January 1992
Laid down: 14 October 1993
Launched: 9 March 1996
Commissioned: 4 July 1997
Decommissioned:
Fate: Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 4,900 tonnes
Length: 133 m (463 ft)
Beam: 16.1 m (52.9 ft)
Draught: 7.3 m
Propulsion: CODLAG (Combined Diesel-eLectric And Gas)
2 Rolls-Royce Spey boost gas-turbines
4 Paxman Valenta diesel engines
2 GEC electric motors
Speed: 28 knots, 15 knots on diesel-electric
Range: 7,800 miles at 15 knots
Complement: 185
Armament: 2 ASuW Harpoon quad launchers
Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles
BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 Oerlikon 30 mm guns
4 Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers
Aircraft: Lynx HMA8
Motto: Sans peur (Without fear)

HMS Sutherland (F81) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.

See HMS Sutherland for other ships of the same name.

Type 23 frigate
Norfolk | Argyll | Lancaster | Marlborough | Iron Duke | Monmouth | Montrose | Westminster | Northumberland | Richmond | Somerset | Grafton | Sutherland | Kent | Portland | St Albans

List of frigates of the Royal Navy
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