GLOUCESTER HMS (D96)
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:55 pm
The inscription on stamp sg 210, scott 196i wrongly inscribes HMS SHEFFIELD instead the stamp depicts HMS GLOUCESTER with pennant number D 96 which can be clearly seen on the hull.
Built as a type 42 destroyer, Batch 3 and built under yard No 4249 by Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston for the Royal Navy.
02 November 1982 launched as the HMS GLOUCESTER (D96) and christened by the Brigitte, Duchess of Gloucester wife of Prince Richard.
Displacement 4,750 ton standard, 5,350 ton full load. Dim. 140.97 x 14.9 x 5.79m. (draught)
Powered by COGOG two Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines, 50,000 shp. Twin shafts, speed 30 knots. Two dyne gas turbines 8,000 shp, speed 18 knots.
Armament 1 – 4.5 inch gun. 2 – twin Sea Dart missile launchers, total of 40 missiles. 4 – 20mm Oerlikon guns. 2 Phalanx CIWS close in weapon systems. 6 – 324mm torpedo tubes.
One Lynx helicopter.
Crew 287.
11 September 1985 commissioned.
The Batch 3 has a stretched hull, who gives her more space for additional weapons systems and increasing stability during bad weather.
1991 She served in the Gulf War, where her most notable action was the firing of a salvo shot of Sea Dart missiles to shoot down two Iraqi Silkworm missiles that were threatening the battleship USS MISSOURI and allied mine-hunters. She also destroyed several small Iraqi small craft.
She avoided making contact with two sea mines.
Her mariners and crew conducted several boarding’s on merchant ships.
2006 During the conflict between Israel and Lebanon she was the first Royal Navy vessel to evacuate British nationals from Beirut.
18 July 2006 she docked for the first time in Beirut, making three trips with evacuees between Beirut and Cyprus.
2007 Underwent a £6 million refit at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, Scotland.
26 August 2010 she intercepted the Florida registered yacht TORTUGA in mid-Atlantic and took it to the Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine worth £4 million hidden inside the rudder.
The GLOUCESTER was underway from the U.K. to the Falkland for a deployment from August 2010 to early 2011.
20 September 2010 Uruguay denied HMS GLOUCESTER access to the port of Montevideo as a result of the Falkland Island sovereignty dispute.
May 2011 a unit of the Saxon Warrior exercise.
23 May 2011 returned at Portsmouth and she was decommissioned on 30 June 2011.
15 October 2015 she was broken up by Leyal G.S., Aliaga, Turkey.
British Indian Ocean Territory 1997 24p sg210, scott196i and sg207, scott196k, sg212, scott196l
Djibouti 2018 240Fr, sg? , Scott?
Source: Wikipedia: The Encyclopadia of Warships.
Built as a type 42 destroyer, Batch 3 and built under yard No 4249 by Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston for the Royal Navy.
02 November 1982 launched as the HMS GLOUCESTER (D96) and christened by the Brigitte, Duchess of Gloucester wife of Prince Richard.
Displacement 4,750 ton standard, 5,350 ton full load. Dim. 140.97 x 14.9 x 5.79m. (draught)
Powered by COGOG two Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines, 50,000 shp. Twin shafts, speed 30 knots. Two dyne gas turbines 8,000 shp, speed 18 knots.
Armament 1 – 4.5 inch gun. 2 – twin Sea Dart missile launchers, total of 40 missiles. 4 – 20mm Oerlikon guns. 2 Phalanx CIWS close in weapon systems. 6 – 324mm torpedo tubes.
One Lynx helicopter.
Crew 287.
11 September 1985 commissioned.
The Batch 3 has a stretched hull, who gives her more space for additional weapons systems and increasing stability during bad weather.
1991 She served in the Gulf War, where her most notable action was the firing of a salvo shot of Sea Dart missiles to shoot down two Iraqi Silkworm missiles that were threatening the battleship USS MISSOURI and allied mine-hunters. She also destroyed several small Iraqi small craft.
She avoided making contact with two sea mines.
Her mariners and crew conducted several boarding’s on merchant ships.
2006 During the conflict between Israel and Lebanon she was the first Royal Navy vessel to evacuate British nationals from Beirut.
18 July 2006 she docked for the first time in Beirut, making three trips with evacuees between Beirut and Cyprus.
2007 Underwent a £6 million refit at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, Scotland.
26 August 2010 she intercepted the Florida registered yacht TORTUGA in mid-Atlantic and took it to the Cape Verde where authorities discovered cocaine worth £4 million hidden inside the rudder.
The GLOUCESTER was underway from the U.K. to the Falkland for a deployment from August 2010 to early 2011.
20 September 2010 Uruguay denied HMS GLOUCESTER access to the port of Montevideo as a result of the Falkland Island sovereignty dispute.
May 2011 a unit of the Saxon Warrior exercise.
23 May 2011 returned at Portsmouth and she was decommissioned on 30 June 2011.
15 October 2015 she was broken up by Leyal G.S., Aliaga, Turkey.
British Indian Ocean Territory 1997 24p sg210, scott196i and sg207, scott196k, sg212, scott196l
Djibouti 2018 240Fr, sg? , Scott?
Source: Wikipedia: The Encyclopadia of Warships.