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| tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|RN Ensign |
| rdered: | July 1988 |
| aid down: | 12 December 1988 |
| aunched: | 2 March 1991 |
| ommissioned: | 20 May 1993 |
| ecommissioned: | |
| ate: | |
| truck: | |
| olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics |
| isplacement: | 4,900 tonnes |
| ength: | 133 m (463 ft) |
| eam: | 16.1 m (52.9 ft) |
| raught: | |
| ropulsion: | CODLAG (Combined Diesel and Gas): 2 Rolls Royce Spey boost turbines
4 GEC Paxman-Valenta diesel engines
2 GEC electric motors |
| peed: | |
| ange: | |
| omplement: | 185 |
| rmament: | Two quad Harpoon launchers
Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles
4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
Two 30 mm guns
Two magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes
NATO Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers |
| ircraft: | Lynx HMA8 |
| otto: | Virtutis Fortuna Comes (Latin: Fortune is the companion of valour) |