Departing East Cove, Falkland Islands.

Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down: 18 January 1980
Launched: 20 June 1982
Sponsored by: Lady Gosling
Christened: 9 August 1985
Commissioned: 9 August 1985
Decommissioned: 27 September 2012
Identification: Pennant number: D98
Deck code:YK
International callsign:GBBB
Motto: Bon Espoir ("Good Hope")
Class & type: Type 42 destroyer
Displacement: 5,200 tonnes
Length: 141 m (463 ft)
Beam: 15.2 m (50 ft)
Propulsion: COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
2 turbines producing 36 megawatts (48,000 hp)
Speed: 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Complement: 287
Armament:
2 × Twin Sea Dart missile launcher (total of 40 missiles)
1 × 4.5 in (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 x 20 mm Oerlikon guns
2 × Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS)
2 x Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes

Aircraft carried:
1 x Lynx HMA8 armed with:
4 × anti ship missiles
2 × anti submarine torpedoes