HMS Southampton (D90)
HMS Southampton dressed overall.
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| Name: | HMS Southampton |
| Ordered: | 17 March 1976 |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Laid down: | 21 October 1976 |
| Launched: | 29 January 1979 |
| Commissioned: | 31 October 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 February 2009 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Portsmouth |
| Identification: | Pennant number: D90 |
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| Nickname(s): | "The Mighty Ninety" (after her pennant number). |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
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| Class and type: | Type 42 destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,820 tonnes |
| Length: | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.3 m (47 ft) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 287 |
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| Aircraft carried: | Westland Lynx HMA8 |
HMS Southampton was a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after the city of Southampton, England, and built by Vosper Thornycroft, in Southampton. She was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear the name.
In 1984, she ran over one of the Shambles Buoys off Portland during the final Thursday War intended to prepare her to deploy to the Falklands. The collision sank the buoy and resulted in a period in dry dock for repair.
On 3 September 1988, whilst serving on the Armilla Patrol, she was involved in a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in the convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz.
On 3 February 2006, the ship was involved in the seizing of 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean.
On 31 July 2008, she was placed in a state of "Extended Readiness" and she was decommissioned on 12 February 2009. The ship was auctioned on 28 March 2011 and was later towed from Portsmouth on 14 October 2011 to Leyal Ship Recycling's scrapyard in Aliaga, Turkey.
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