HMS Liverpool Cruiser
- Extended Description
- MODERN BUILDING METHODS
HMS Liverpool was the last of four short-hulled Type 42 Batch 2 destroyers, externally identical to the original six Batch 1 Type 42 She Was also the only one built by the extrusion method, favoured by Cammell Laird as a way of expediting construction. Large hull-sections were fabricated and then assembled on the slipway as the hull was moved slowly out of the building hall. As a result HMS Liverpool was delivered a year early.
ARDUOUS PEACETIME SERVICE
Although she was too late to serve in the Falklands War, being completed a month alter the Argentine surrender, HMS Liverpool has seen continuous service in the past years. Like other Batch 2s, she has Type 1022 air warning radar instead of the prominent Type 965M bedstead radar originally fitted to the Batch 1 s, and the Type 992/993 target indication radar on the mainmast has given way to the Type 996. Amidships port and starboard there are Mk 15 Phalanx 20mm gatlings and two Mk 1 30mm guns.
TECHNICAL DATA
Type: Guided-missile destroyer
Machinery: 2-shaft COGOG giving 50,000shp
Dimensions: Length, 125m (410ft); beam, 14m (46ft)
Displacement: 4350t (full load)
Draught: 5.8m (19ft) (max)
