HMS Nottingham (D91)

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HMS Nottingham in 1998
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Nottingham
Ordered	1 March 1977
Builder	Vosper Thorneycroft, Woolston yard
Laid down	6 February 1978
Launched	18 February 1980
Sponsored by	Lady Leach (wife of the then First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Henry Leach)
Commissioned	14 April 1983
Decommissioned	11 February 2010
Homeport	HMNB Portsmouth, Hampshire
Identification	Pennant number: D91 IMO number: 4907050
Motto	Foy pour devoir (French: "Faith for Duty")
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 tonnes
Length	125 m (410 ft)
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft)
Propulsion	2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines (cruising engines - up to about 18 knots (33 km/h))
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement	271 (27 officers, 71 senior rates, 173 junior rates)
Armament	1 × twin Sea Dart missile launcher 1 × Vickers 4.5-inch (114 mm) Mk 8 automatic gun 2 × Vulcan Phalanx close-in weapon system
Aircraft carried	Westland Lynx HMA8

HMS Nottingham was a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the city of Nottingham, England. She was launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983 as the sixth warship to bear the name.

Her commanding officer at commissioning was Commander Nigel Essenhigh (in his first major command role) who went on to become First Sea Lord.

On her first cruise to Oporto, Portugal and then Gibraltar the destroyer lost two sailors to a drowning incident while on shore leave visiting a beach in Oporto.

In November 2000, Nottingham completed a major refit, which was intended to extend her operational life to 2012, although she was later placed in reserve and decommissioned on 11 February 2010.^[1][2]