HMS York (D98)

HMS York in Jersey on 4 May 2009.
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS York
Builder:	Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down:	18 January 1980
Launched:	20 June 1982
Sponsored by:	Lady Gosling
Christened:	9 August 1985
Commissioned:	9 August 1985
Decommissioned:	27 September 2012
Identification:	Pennant number: D98 Deck code: YK International callsign: GBBB
Motto:	Bon Espoir ("Good Hope")
Status:	Scrapped in Turkey 2015
Badge:	On a Field Blue, a White rose with Gold keys issuant Red.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement:	5,200 tonnes
Length:	141 m (463 ft)
Beam:	15.2 m (50 ft)
Propulsion:	Combined gas or gas turbines, 2 shafts 2 turbines producing 36 MW (48,000 hp)
Speed:	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement:	287
Armament:	2 × twin Sea Dart missile launcher (total of 40 missiles) 1 × 4.5 in (110 mm) Mk 8 gun 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns 2 × Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS) 2 × triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	1 × Lynx HMA8 armed with: 4 × anti ship missiles 2 × anti submarine torpedoes

HMS York was a Batch III Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched on 20 June 1982 at Wallsend,Tyne and Wear and sponsored by Lady Gosling, York was the last Type 42 built. The ship's crest was the White Rose of York, and the "red cross with lions passant" funnel badge was derived from the coat of arms of the City of York. With a maximum speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph), she was the Royal Navy's fastest destroyer.

In the summer of 1990, HMS York was serving on a routine patrol in the Persian Gulf as part of The Armilla Patrol which had been undertaken by a series of Royal Navy warships over many years. On 2 August that year, Saddam Hussein's forces invaded Kuwait. Instead of heading off to the Far East and Australia for series of "waving the flag" port visits, she remained on patrol in the Persian Gulf for an extra three months. This period was conducted when at sea mostly on a war-ready footing, involving virtually everyone onboard working Defence Watches (basically six hours on, six off) round the clock.

In 2001, she tested a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile

In 2003, York took part in the invasion of Iraq providing air cover and area protection for the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. In 2004, she was fitted with the MOD 1 variant of the mark 8 4.5-inch gun. She and Edinburgh were the only two Type 42s to be so fitted.

In July 2006, York joined Gloucester in evacuating British citizens from Beirut in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict making several trips in and out of Lebanon, ferrying evacuees to Cyprus.