H.M.S. Kent
D.12
1963
(Albatros ALK-85a)
- Class: "County", Group 1 -- 4 destroyers of 1955-57
- Displacement: 5,440 tons
- Dimensions: 505 (wl) 520.5 (oa) x 54 x 20 ft.
- Machinery: COSAG: 2 x AEI geared steam turbines 30,000 shp +
4 x G6 gas turbines 30,000 shp, 2 shafts = 31.5 knots
- Missiles: 1 Sea Slug Mk 2 twin SAM launcher; 2 Seacat GWS 21 quadruple launchers
- Guns: 4-4.5"/45 (2x2) DP guns
- ASW weapons: 6-324 mm Plessey STWS Mk 2 fixed tubes (2x3)
- Helicopters: 1 WG.13 Lynx
- Complement: 440
- Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
- Keel Laid: 1 Mar 1960
- Launched: 27 Sep 1961
- Commissioned: 15 Aug 1963
- Sold: Reduced to harborside training Apr 1980
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