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HMS Exeter (1980) DG  (5th)

     
The 5th HMS Exeter should have been  a Type 82 Bristol Class Destroyer, but her construction was not completed.

So the fifth and current HMS Exeter is a Type 42 Destroyer, the lead ship of the second batch to be constructed.
Built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd, whose keel was laid down on 22-July 1976, launched on 25-April-1978, and was commissioned on 19-Sept-1980.

She gained a battle honour in the Falklands War of 1982. 

During the 1st Gulf War of 1991, she provided escort duties for a US Battleship and Mine Counter-measures units off the coast of Kuwait.

In 1997 she began an extensive refit at Rosyth Dockyard, and rejoined the Fleet on 11-Sept-1998.

The ship's motto is: Semper Fidelis - 'Always faithful'.

Won the Battle Honours: Falkland Islands 1982 and Kuwait 1991.

 

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- 2nd HMS Exeter
- 3rd HMS Exeter
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- 5th HMS Exeter

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This page last edited - 29 August, 2010.

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