HMS Southampton (D90)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|HMS Southampton}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=HMS Southampton D90.jpg |Ship caption=HMS Southampton dressed overall. }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |Ship name=HMS Southampton |Ship ordered=17 March 1976{{Cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=1981-10-27.336.5|title=Service Men (Rehabilitation)}} |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Vosper Thornycroft |Ship yard number= |Ship laid down=21 October 1976 |Ship launched=29 January 1979 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship commissioned=31 October 1981 |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned=12 February 2009 |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport=HMNB Portsmouth |Ship motto=*Pro jusititus pro Rege
|Ship nickname="The Mighty Ninety" (after her pennant number). |Ship honours= |Ship identification=*Pennant number: D90
|Ship fate=Sold for scrap |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=Type 42 destroyer |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement= 4,820 tonnes |Ship length={{convert|125|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|14.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship propulsion=*COGOG (Combined gas or gas) turbines, 2 shafts
|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn|km/h}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship complement=287 |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=*Sea Dart missiles
|Ship armour= |Ship aircraft=Westland Lynx HMA8 |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= }} |
HMS Southampton was a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after the city of Southampton, England, and built by Vosper Thornycroft, in Southampton. She was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear the name.
Operational service
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=1981–2005=
In 1984, Southampton ran over one of the Shambles Buoys off Portland during the final Thursday War intended to prepare her to deploy to the Falklands Islands. The collision sank the buoy and resulted in a period in dry dock for repair, after which Southampton left for a six-month deployment as a Falkland Islands guard ship.
On 3 September 1988, whilst serving on the Armilla Patrol, Southampton was involved in a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in a convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz. Three members of her crew were slightly injured and a {{convert|10|m|adj=on}} hole torn in Southampton{{'}}s hull. The destroyer was returned to the UK aboard a semi-submersible heavy lift ship.{{cite web|url=http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/collison_involving_hms_southamto |title=Collision involving HMS Southampton|date=26 April 2009}} FOI request for the Board of Inquiry report{{cite book |editor-last=Gardiner |editor-first=Robert |title=Warship 1989 |year=1989 |location=London |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |isbn=0-85177-530-6 |last=Sturton |first=Ian |chapter=The Naval Year in Review: F (ii). Major Casualties at Sea From 1 April 1988 to 30 April 1989 |page=247}}
=2006–2011=
On 3 February 2006, the ship was involved in the seizing of {{convert|3.5|t|lk=on}} of cocaine in the Caribbean.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4677038.stm|title=UK ships seize £350m drugs cache|work=BBC News|date=3 February 2006}}
Fate
On 31 July 2008, Southampton was placed in a state of "Extended Readiness" and was decommissioned on 12 February 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4117771.HMS_Southampton_bows_out_after_28_years/ |title=HMS Southampton bows out after 28 years|publisher=Daily Echo|date=11 February 2009}} The ship was auctioned on 28 March 2011 and was later towed from Portsmouth on 14 October 2011 to Leyal Ship Recycling's scrapyard in Aliağa, Turkey.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12883511|title=Carrier HMS Ark Royal put up for auction on MoD website|date=28 March 2011|access-date=31 March 2011|publisher=BBC News}}
Affiliations
- The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)
- No. 25 Squadron RAF
- City of Southampton
- Worshipful Company of Fletchers
- Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
- Canford School Combined Cadet Force
- Mill Hill School{{cite web|url=http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1718|title=List of HMS Southampton Affiliations - RN Website|access-date=2008-07-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609070750/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1718|archive-date=9 June 2008|df=dmy-all}}
- Old Southamptons (veterans of the previous HMS Southampton)
- Royal Southampton Yacht Club
- Southampton and Fareham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Southampton University Royal Naval Unit
- TS Southampton (Sea Cadet Corps)
- Royal Naval Association Southampton
- Southampton RN Officers Association
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080210002221/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1706 Royal Navy website: HMS Southampton]
{{Type 42 destroyer}}
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Category:Ships built in Southampton
Category:Cold War destroyers of the United Kingdom