HMS Gloucester (D96)

	HMS Gloucester
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Gloucester
Builder	Vosper Thornycroft
Laid down	29 October 1979
Launched	2 November 1982
Sponsored by	Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester
Commissioned	11 September 1985
Decommissioned	30 June 2011
Homeport	HMNB Portsmouth
Identification	Pennant number: D96; Deck code: GC; IMO number: 4907086; MMSI number: 226772033; International callsign: GBBF;
Motto	Prorsum ("Onwards")
Nickname(s)	"The Fighting G"
Fate	Sold for scrap
Badge	On a Field Blue a Trident White enfiled by a horseshoe gold; ;
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	5,200 tonnes
Length	141 m (463 ft)
Beam	15.2 m (50 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG (Combination of Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts; 2 turbines producing 36 MW (48,000 hp);
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement	287
Armament	Twin Sea Dart missile launcher, with 22 missiles, space reserved for an additional 15; 1 × 4.5 inch (113 mm) Mk 8 gun; 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 × Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS); NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers;
Aircraft carried	1 x Lynx HMA8 armed with; 4 × anti ship missiles; 2 × anti submarine torpedoes;

HMS Gloucester was a Batch 3 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, built by Vosper Thorneycroft at Woolston, Southampton and launched on 2 November 1982 by The Duchess of Gloucester. Gloucester was one of the modified last four of the class to be built, having a lengthened hull design giving better seakeeping qualities, greater endurance and an external 'strake' to counter longitudinal cracking, seen on earlier ships of the type. The flight deck recognition letters worn by Gloucester were GC, and her international callsign was GBBF.

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