HMS Liverpool (D92)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 5 July 1978 |
| Launched: | 25 September 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1982 |
| 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: | Twin Sea Dart Missile launcher 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun |
| Aircraft: | Lynx HMA8 |
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The seventh, and current HMS Liverpool (D92) is the 10th of 14 Type 42 destroyers. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched on the 25th September in 1980 by Lady Strathcona, wife of the then Minister of State for Defence.
Liverpool fired what is believed to be the first salvo of Sea Dart missiles in well over a decade, along with possibly the second only salvo ever. The firing took place approximately 250 miles south-west of the Isles of Scilly on 8 September 2002, against a sea skimming target. Liverpool proved the potency and effectiveness of the Sea Dart missile, despite its age, as well as Liverpool's systems, after she had been in an eighteen month refit at Rosyth Royal Dockyard.
She was part of the Naval Task Group 03 (NTG03), intended to take part in exercies in the Far East as part of the Five Power Defence Arrangement. The task force was, instead, sent to the Persian Gulf where they took part in the 2003 Iraq War.
In 2005, Liverpool was sent to the Caribbean.
[edit] Affiliations
- The City of Liverpool
- The Worshipful Company of Pewterers
- British Army
- 47(Air Defence) Regiment Royal Artillery
- The King's Regiment
- Combined Cadet Force (Royal Navy) Units
- Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom) Units
- TS Merseyside
- TS Liverpool
- TS Corunna
| 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 |
