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HMS Bristol
Class overview
Name
Type 82
Builders
Swan Hunter
Operators
Royal Navy
Preceded by
County class
Succeeded by
Type 42
Built
1967-1969
In commission
31 March 1973 – 28 October 2020
Planned
8
Completed
1
Cancelled
7
Active
0
Laid up
1
General characteristics
Displacement
6,300 tons (standard), 7,100 tons (full)[1]
Length
154.53 m (507 ft 0 in)
Beam
16.76 m (55 ft 0 in)
Draught
7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Propulsion
COSAG, 2 shafts
2 boilers, 2 standard range geared steam turbines 30,000 hp (22,000 kW)
2 Bristol Siddeley Olympus TM1A gas turbines 30,000 hp
Ikara A/S launcher (at least 24 rounds)[2] (until 1984)
Mark 10 'Limbo' A/S mortar (until 1979)
2 × twin Oerlikon/BMARC GCM-A03 30 mm guns (from 1983)
2 × Oerlikon/BMARC GAM-B01 20 mm guns (from 1983)
2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns (from 1979)
Aviation facilities
Flight deck
The Type 82 or Bristol-class destroyer was a 1960s guided missile destroyer design intended to replace County-class destroyers in the Royal Navy. Originally eight warships were planned to provide area air-defence for the four planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. They would also have been able to operate independently as modern cruisers "East of Suez".
Anti-aircraft capability was provided by the new Sea Dart missile system and the class also had anti-submarine capability. They were expected to serve as a group of four Type 82s forming the outer escort of the carrier with four "Broad Beam" Leander-class frigates as the inner escort.
The CVA-01s were all cancelled by 1966, eliminating one of the main roles for the class and removing the need for such a large warship. In its place a smaller design carrying Sea Dart for air defence entered service as the Type 42 destroyer. One Type 82, HMS Bristol, was ordered to act as a testbed for the various technologies to be used on future ships. Sometimes described as a "light cruiser",[3] she was officially classified as a destroyer.
^"Type 82 General Purpose Destroyer". HMS Bristol - Type 82 Destroyer. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^ abFriedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers and Frigates, the Second World War and After. Barnsley: Seaforth. pp. 263, 320. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
^Jane's Fighting Ships, 1980–81. London, UK: Jane's Publishing Company. 1980. p. 556. ISBN 978-0-71060-703-4.
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