HMS Hampshire (D06)

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Ordered:
Laid down: 26 March 1959
Launched: 16 March 1961
Commissioned: 15 March 1963
Decommissioned: 1976
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1979
Struck:
General Characteristics
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Beam: 53 ft
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Propulsion: COSAG (Combination of Steam and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
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Aircraft: one Lynx or Wessex
Motto:

HMS Hampshire (D06) was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned in 1976 and cannibalised for spares to feed her sister ships. Hampshire was sold for scrap in 1979.

See HMS Hampshire for other ships of the same name.

County-class destroyer
Devonshire | Hampshire | London | Kent | Fife | Glamorgan | Antrim | Norfolk

List of destroyers of the Royal Navy