Destroyer of the Royal Navy
For other ships with the same name, see
HMS York
.
HMS
York
in
Jersey
on 4 May 2009.
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History
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United Kingdom
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Name
| HMS
York
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Builder
| Swan Hunter
, Tyne and Wear
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Laid down
| 18 January 1980
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Launched
| 20 June 1982
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Sponsored by
| Lady Gosling
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Christened
| 9 August 1985
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Commissioned
| 9 August 1985
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Decommissioned
| 27 September 2012
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Identification
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Motto
| Bon Espoir
("Good Hope")
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Fate
| Scrapped in Turkey 2015
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Badge
|
- On a Field Blue, a White rose with Gold keys issuant Red.
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General characteristics
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Class and type
| Type 42 destroyer
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Displacement
| 5,200 tonnes
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Length
| 141 m (463 ft)
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Beam
| 15.2 m (50 ft)
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Propulsion
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- Combined gas or gas turbines, 2 shafts
- 2 turbines producing 36 MW (48,000 hp)
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Speed
| 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
[3]
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Complement
| 287
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Armament
| |
Aircraft carried
|
- 1 ×
Lynx
HMA8 armed with:
- 4 × anti ship missiles
- 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
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HMS
York
was a Batch III
Type 42
destroyer
of the
Royal Navy
. Launched on 20 June 1982 at
Wallsend
,
[4]
Tyne and Wear
and sponsored by Lady Gosling,
York
was the last Type 42 ordered. The ship's crest was the White Rose of York, and the "red cross with lions passant" funnel badge was derived from the
coat of arms
of the
City of York
. With a maximum speed of 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph), she was the Royal Navy's fastest destroyer.
[3]
Operational history
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1985-1990
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In the summer of 1990, HMS
York
was serving on a routine patrol in the
Persian Gulf
as part of The
Armilla Patrol
which had been undertaken by a series of Royal Navy warships over many years. On 2 August that year,
Saddam Hussein
's forces
invaded Kuwait
. Instead of heading off to the
Far East
and Australia for series of "waving the flag" port visits, she remained on patrol in the Persian Gulf for an extra three months. This period was conducted when at sea mostly on a war-ready footing, involving virtually everyone onboard working Defence Watches (basically six hours on, six off) round the clock.
1990-2000
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Following refit at Rosyth, York rededicated on 30 June 1995 and then worked up to full readiness undertaking operational sea training and a JMC. She then deployed to the Far East and Middle East with visits to Malaysia, Bangladesh, Oman, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
2001-2010
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In 2001, she tested a
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile
.
[5]
2002 York deployed early in January in response to the 9-11 bombings. She relieved HMS Southampton which was part of a large exercises in the med and gulf that had been cancelled and diverted to take up station in the Gulf. As Southampton had already been away for several months York sailed and took over so she could return to the UK. Whilst on the deployment the ship visit Salala oman, Dubai, Mumbai India, Gibraltar, Greece and Crete with the ships company enjoying some well earned rest in Kavos on the way home. York arrived back into Portsmouth in June.
In 2003,
York
took part in the
invasion of Iraq
providing air cover and area protection for the
aircraft carrier
HMS
Ark Royal
. In 2004, she was fitted with the MOD 1 variant of the
mark 8 4.5-inch gun
. She and
Edinburgh
were the only two
Type 42s
to be so fitted.
In July 2006,
York
joined
Gloucester
in
evacuating British citizens
from
Beirut
in the
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
making several trips in and out of
Lebanon
, ferrying evacuees to
Cyprus
.
[6]
In February 2010,
York
and the auxiliary
Wave Ruler
were deployed to the
Falkland Islands
coinciding with a period of increased tensions between the United Kingdom and
Argentina
over the former's plans to begin drilling for oil in the seas surrounding the islands.
[7]
2011-2012
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In February 2011,
York
was deployed to
Malta
to assist in the evacuation of British nationals from
Libya
.
[8]
On 21 April 2011,
York
arrived at the
East Cove Military Port
in the
Falkland Islands
, beginning patrol duties for the islands.
[3]
On 12 December 2011,
York
spotted the
Admiral Kuznetsov
with its carrier group northeast of
Orkney
, off the coast of northern Scotland, and shadowed the carrier for a week. This was the first time
Admiral Kuznetsov
had deployed near UK waters and the closest in 20 years that a Russian naval task group had deployed to the UK.
[9]
She then sailed around the top of Scotland and into the Atlantic past western Ireland, where she conducted flying operations with her
Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker
jets and
Kamov Ka-27
helicopters in international airspace.
[9]
[10]
On 13 April 2012,
Edinburgh
fired the last ever operational
Sea Dart missiles
after a thirty-year career. As such
York
completed her career without the system being operational.
[11]
[12]
York
entered
Portsmouth
harbour for the final time on 20 September 2012, and was decommissioned on 27 September 2012.
[2]
In August 2012, the ship was put up for sale.
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