HMS Birmingham (D86)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 28 March 1972 |
| Launched: | 30 July 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 3 December 1976 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 December 1999 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 20 October 2000. |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,820 tonnes |
| Length: | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.3 m (47 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.8 m |
| Propulsion: | 4 Rolls-Royce (2 Olympus and 2 Tyne) producing 36 MW COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) arrangement |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 287 |
| Armament: | Sea Dart missiles 114 mm (4.5 in) Mk 8 gun |
| Aircraft: | Lynx HMA8 |
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HMS Birmingham (D86) was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976.
She was named for the city of Birmingham, England.
Birmingham paid off at Portsmouth on 10 December 1999, was towed to Devonport and stripped of all usable equipment, returned to Portsmouth in May 2000, sold for scrap and left Portsmouth under tow for Spain on 20 October 2000.
See HMS Birmingham for other Navy ships of the same name.
| Type 42 destroyer |
| Sheffield | Birmingham | Newcastle | Glasgow | Cardiff | Coventry | Exeter | Southampton | Nottingham | Liverpool | Manchester | Gloucester | Edinburgh | York |
| List of destroyers of the Royal Navy |