H.M.S. Exeter
D.89
1986
(Albatros ALK-83A)
- Class: Type 42, Batch 2 - 4 destroyers of 1976
- Displacement: 4,100 tons
- Dimensions: 392 (wl) 412 (oa) x 47 x 19 ft.
- Machinery: COGOG: 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 54,450 shp = 29 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: 268
- Builder: Swan Hunter (Tyne)
- Keel Laid: 22 Jul 1976
- Launched: 25 Apr 1978
- Commissioned: 19 Sep 1980
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