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Current Name |
HMS Bristol |
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Ships Sign |
D 23 |
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Operator |
Royal Navy, Portsmouth (Navy Command Headquarters), Hampshire, United Kingdom |
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Owner |
UK Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, Westminster, London, United Kingdom |
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Flag |
United Kingdom |
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Port of Registry |
Portsmouth |
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Type of Ship |
destroyer |
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Completion |
1973 |
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Shipyard |
Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend-on-Tyne, United Kingdom |
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Displacement [t] |
7.100 |
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Overall Length [m] |
149,90 |
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Registered Breadth [m] |
16,77 |
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Maximum Draught [m] |
5,20 |
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Propulsion [KW] |
54.868 |
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Propulsion [BHP] |
74.600 |
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Speed [Kn] |
28,0 |
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Additional Information |
former destroyer of type 82, now accommodations and training ship [YTB]. Displacement: 7,100 ts (before decommissioning). During the Falkland War the ship was used as flagship. In the mid-1980s, the Royal Navy decided to phase out the >HMS Bristol<. The destroyers of the Sheffield class had taken over the duties of >HMS Bristol< completely and maintenance became increasingly uneconomic. In 1987, she replaced the >HMS Kent< as a training ship of the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, but remained fully operational and continued to participate in manoeuvres. In 1991, a fundamental reconstruction of the ship began, in which the entire armament was removed and instead additional accommodations were created on board, as the >HMS Bristol< should serve as a training ship for cadets and members of the Naval Reserve in Portsmouth in the future. Since 1993 she is moored in front of "Whale Island" in the north of the Naval Base Portsmouth. |
