H.M.S. Edinburgh
D.97
1985
(Albatros ALK-82A)
- Class: Type 42, Batch 3 - 4 destroyers of 1978
- Displacement: 3,880 tons
- Dimensions: 434 wl 462.8 oa x 49 x 19 ft.
- Machinery: COGOG: 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 54,450 shp = 30+ knots;
2 x Tyne RM1A gas auxiliaries (cruising) 8,200 shp = 18 knots
- Missiles: 2 Sea Dart SAM launchers
- Guns: 1-4.5"/55 gun; 2-20mm cannons
- ASW weapons: 6 Mark 32 ASW T.T.
- Aircraft: 1 Westland Sea Lynx HAS 3 ASW helicopter
- Complement: 301
- Builder: Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Birkenhead
- Keel Laid: 8 Sep 1980
- Launched: 14 Apr 1983
- Commissioned: 17 Dec 1985
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