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|Ordered:
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|Laid down:
|21 October 1976
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|Launched:
|29 January 1979
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|Commissioned:
|31 October 1981
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|Decommissioned:
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|Fate:
|In service
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|Struck:
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:
|4,820 tonnes
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|Length:
|410 feet
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|Beam:
|47 feet
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|Draught:
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|Propulsion:
|COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts See HMS Southampton for other ships of the same name.