HMS Liverpool (D92)

	Liverpool off Cape Wrath, Scotland, August 1986
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Liverpool
Ordered	1 March 1977
Builder	Cammell Laird
Laid down	5 July 1978
Launched	25 September 1980
Sponsored by	Lady Strathcona, wife of Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Commissioned	1 July 1982
Decommissioned	30 March 2012
Identification	Pennant number: D92; IMO number: 4907062; Callsign: GZIS;
Nickname(s)	"Crazy Red Chicken"
Fate	Scrapped October 2014
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General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 t (4,740 long tons)
Length	125 m (410 ft)
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts; 2 turbines producing 36 MW (48,000 hp);
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	287
Armament	1 × Twin Sea Dart missile launcher (total of 22 missiles); 1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun; 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 2 × Vulcan Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS); 2 × Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes; NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers;
Aircraft carried	1 x Lynx HMA8; Armed with; 4 × anti ship missiles; 2 × anti submarine torpedoes;

HMS Liverpool was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched on 25 September 1980 by Lady Strathcona, wife of Euan Howard, the then Minister of State for Defence. Liverpool was the last Type 42 Batch 2 in service.

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