HMS Liverpool (D92)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Liverpool.
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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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 |
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Nickname(s) | "Crazy Red Chicken"[1] |
Fate | Scrapped October 2014 |
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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) |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 287 |
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