HMS Southampton (D90)

The HMS Southampton ( D90 ) is a destroyer of the Royal Navy and is a member of the Sheffield class.

History

The ship was laid Vosper Thornycroft in 1976 at the keel and ran three years later from the stack. In October 1981, the Southampton was officially put into service. The test drives of the destroyer were shortened in order to possibly use it in the Falklands war may, for which it did not come eventually. Instead of Southampton Armilla Patrol the permanent task force of the Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf has been allocated. When the Southampton escorted freighter in 1988 through the Strait of Hormuz, rammed the container ship MV Tor Bay Southampton and damaged it severely. Only in 1991 left the ship then the yard of Swan Hunter after repair.

1998/1999 was an overhaul at Babcock Rosyth Defence, another 2002/2003. Just before the last overhaul drove the Southampton, among others, the American aircraft carriers USS John C. Stennis (CVN- 74) and the USS Theodore Roosevelt ( CVN -71) and the British HMS Illustrious ( R06 ) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2006, the ship was traveling in the Caribbean, where the Southampton drugs worth 350 million pounds confiscated when she mustered the container ship MV Rampage. On 31 July 2008, the HMS Southampton reserve has been allocated and finally decommissioned on 12 February 2009.