HMS SOUTHAMPTON D90

HMS SOUTHAMPTON D90

Class……………………………Type 42 Batch 2: Sheffield class Destroyer

Builder……………………….. Vosper Thornycroft Ltd., Southampton, Woolston

Yard number……………….4247

Laid down..…………………. 21 October 1976

Launched….………………… 29 January 1979

Completed.…………………. 31 October 1981

Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts driven by 2 Rolls-Royce TM-3B gas turbines / 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM-1C gas turbines : COGOG system

Speed..…………………………28 knots

Range…………………………..4500 nm at 18 knots

Fate

1988: 3 Sept : Badly damaged on 3 September 1988 a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in the convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz. Three members of her crew were slightly injured and a 10-metre (33 ft) hole torn in Southampton's hull.

1988: 9 Dec : SOUTHAMPTON arrived back at Portsmouth aboard the heavy lift vessel MIGHTY SERVANT I

1989: 20 Aug : Left Portsmouth on board SUPER SERVANT I and arrived at Tyne on 24 August.

1989-91: Repaired by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd.

2011: Broken up at Aliaga

 

HMS SOUTHAMPTON in an undated RN postcard photograph

 

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