| Name: | EXETER |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 22/07/1976 |
| Launched: | 25/04/1978 |
| Completed: | 19/09/1980 |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 101 |
| Dimensions: | 3500disp - 4820disp, 119.48 x 14.30 x 4.27(draft)metres |
| Engines: | 2 x Olympus TM3B & 2 x Tyne RM1A gas turbines, 58500shp |
| Engines by: | Rolls Royce |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0+knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x Vickers Mk8 4.5ins gun, 1 x 2 x Sea Dart AA missile, 2 x 3 x 12.75ins torpedoes |
| 2 x 20mm Oerlikon guns, 2 x Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, 1 x Lynx HMA8 helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 19/09/1980 | British Royal Navy |
| 23/09/2011 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the Type 42 - Batch 2 class of destroyers |
| Allocated pennant number D89 | |
| Exact configuration of smaller weapons varied during life time | |
| 27/05/2009: Decommissioned at Fareham Creek, Portsmouth | |
| 23/09/2011: Left Portsmouth, in tow for breaking up by Leyal Ship Recycling, Turkey |
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