H.M.S. Manchester
D.95
1982
(Albatros ALK-82)
- 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: Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow
- Keel Laid: 19 Apr 1978
- Launched: 17 Nov 1980
- Commissioned: 16 Dec 1982
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