HMS Liverpool (D92)

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HMS Liverpool at Portsmouth in April 2004
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Liverpool (D92)
Operator:	Royal Navy
Ordered:	1 March 1977
Builder:	Cammell Laird
Laid down:	5 July 1978
Launched:	25 September 1980
Commissioned:	1 July 1982
Fate:	Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement:	4,820 tonnes
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
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	287
Armament:	Twin Sea Dart missile launcher 1 x 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun 2 x 20 mm Oerlikon guns 2 x Vulcan Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS) 2 x Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers
Aircraft carried:	Lynx HMA8

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 Dockyard.

She was part of the Naval Task Group 03 (NTG03), intended to take part in exercises 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

Portsmouth dockyard; the Type 42 destroyer HMS Liverpool is moored adjacent to HMS Endurance (A171), the historic Ship of the line HMS Victory and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R07).

• The City of Liverpool
• The Worshipful Company of Pewterers
• Liverpool University Royal Naval Unit (HMS Charger)
• British Army
  • 47(Air Defence) Regiment Royal Artillery
  • The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border)
• Combined Cadet Force (Royal Navy) Units
  • Calday Grange Grammar School, Wirral
  • Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
  • Birkenhead School, Wirral
• Sea Cadet Corps (United Kingdom) Units
  • TS Merseyside
  • TS Liverpool
  • TS Corunna

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