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HMS London (D16)
1963 County-class guided missile destroyer of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS London.
HMS London was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
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![]() HMS London leads Antrim and Norfolk in the English Channel after taking part in joint exercises with the RAF in the Atlantic, North Sea and Norwegian Sea, December 1971 | |
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Name | HMS London |
Ordered | 6 February 1957 |
Builder | Swan Hunter |
Laid down | 26 February 1960 |
Launched | 7 December 1961 |
Commissioned | 4 November 1963 |
Decommissioned | December 1981 |
Identification | Pennant number: D16 |
Fate | Sold to Pakistan on 24 March 1982 |
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Name | Babur |
Acquired | March 1982 |
Decommissioned | 1993 |
Fate | Sold for scrap in 1995 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | County-class destroyer |
Displacement | 6,200 tons (6,800 tons full load) |
Length | 158.6 m (520 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
Draught | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion | COSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts |
Speed | 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) |
Complement | 470 |
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Aircraft carried | 1× Lynx or Wessex helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for embarking one helicopter |
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