Laid down 21 October 1976 Decommissioned 12 February 2009 Construction started 21 October 1976 Length 125 m | Ordered 17 March 1976 Commissioned 31 October 1981 Launched 29 January 1979 Builder VT Group | |
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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.
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1981-2005
In 1984, she ran over one of the Shambles Buoys off Portland during the final Thursday War intended to prepare her to deploy to the Falklands. The collision sank the buoy and resulted in a period in dry dock for repair.
On 3 September 1988, whilst serving on the Armilla Patrol, she was involved in a collision with MV Tor Bay, a container ship in the convoy being escorted through the Straits of Hormuz.
2006-2011
On 3 February 2006, the ship was involved in the seizing of 3.5 tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean.
Fate
On 31 July 2008, she was placed in a state of "Extended Readiness" and she was decommissioned on 12 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 Aliaga, Turkey.
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