HMS Cumberland (F85)

HMS Cumberland and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Cumberland
OperatorRoyal Navy
BuilderYarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down12 October 1984
Launched21 June 1986
Commissioned10 June 1989
Decommissioned23 June 2011
HomeportHMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Identification
Motto
  • Latin Justitia Tenax
  • ("Tenacious of Justice")
Nickname(s)The Fighting Sausage (after the Cumberland sausage)
FateSold for scrap November 2013
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General characteristics
Class & typeType 22 frigate
Displacement5,300 tons
Length148.1 m (486 ft 9 in)
Beam14.8 m (48 ft 6 in)
Draught6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) (cruise)
  • 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (max)
Complement250 (max. 301)
Armament
Aircraft carried
  • 2 x Lynx Mk.8 helicopters (but only 1 Lynx in peacetime).
  • Armed with
    • 4 × Sea Skua anti-shipping missiles
    • 2 × Sting Ray anti-submarine torpedoes
    • 2 × Mk 11 depth charges
    • 2 × Machine guns

HMS Cumberland was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1986 and commissioned on 10 June 1989. The frigate was on station during the First Gulf War and was part of the Devonport Flotilla based at Devonport Dockyard. Cumberland was decommissioned on 23 June 2011.