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Entering Portsmouth harbour 12-06-2008
HMS Richmond (F239)
Career (UK)
Operator: Royal Navy Ordered: December 1989 Builder: Swan Hunter Laid down: 16 February 1992 Launched: 6 April 1993 Commissioned: 22 June 1995
Motto: A Deo et Rege "From God and the King" Fate: Active in service as of 2008 General characteristics
Class and type: 'Duke'-class Type 23 frigate Displacement: 4,900 tonnes Length: 133 m (463 ft 3 in) Beam: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) Draught: 7.4 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion: CODLAG (Combined Diesel-eLectric And Gas)
2 × Rolls-Royce Spey boost gas-turbines
4 × Paxman Valenta diesel engines
2 × GEC electric motors Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
15 knots (28 km/h) on diesel-electric Range: 7,800 nautical miles (14,400 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement: 185 Armament: 2 × ASuW Harpoon quad launchers
Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles
1 × BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns
4 × Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers Aircraft carried: 1 × Merlin MH1 helicopter
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