Type 82 Destroyer

The Type 82 or Bristol-class destroyer was to have been a class of eight Royal Navy warships intended as area air-defence destroyers to replace the County-class destroyers, and to serve as escorts to the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. Eventually only a single ship, HMS Bristol was built and served as a testbed for much of the modern technology and armaments seen in later classes of Royal Navy warships. Sometimes described as a "light cruiser", she was officially classified as a destroyer.

The 82 was succeeded in role by Admiral and later Daring class destroyers.

Specifications

• Type: Air Defense Destroyer/Cadet Training Ship
• Service Period: 1973-Present
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 507 feet (154.53 meters)
  • Beam: 55 feet (16.76 meters)
  • Draught: 25 feet (7.62 meters)
  • Displacement: 6,400 tonnes (Standard); 7,100 tons (Full Load)
• Crew: 397 (30 officers and 367 enlisted)
• Propulsion: COSAG
  • 2 x Babcock & Wilcox steam boilers, 30,000 shp
  • 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM1A gas turbines, 44,000 shp
  • 1 x AEI geared steam turbine
  • 2 x shafts
• Range: 5,750 nautical miles (10,649 kilometers) at 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
• Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • Type 965M 3D Air Search Radar x 1 - replaced by Type 1022 in 1986
  • Type 992R Surface Search Radar x 1
  • Type 978 Navigation Radar - replaced by Type 1006 in 1986
  • Type 909 Fire Control Radar x 2
  • Type 170 Search Sonar
  • Type 162M Passive Search Sonar
  • Type 184M Targeting Sonar
• Countermeasures:
  • UAA-1 Electronic Warfare Suite - added in 1979
  • Type 675 Electronic Countermeasures Suite - added in 1979
  • Mk.36 SBROC Decoy Launchers x 2 - added in 1983
  • Vickers Corvus decoy launchers x 2 - added in 1979
  • Type 182 Towed Torpedo Decoy
• Armament:
  • 1 x QF 4.5"/55-caliber Mk.8 naval gun
  • 1 x Sea Dart Launcher (fires GWS.30 Sea Dart SAMs)
  • 1 x Ikara ASW rocket launcher - removed in 1986
  • 1 x Mk.10 Limbo ASW mortar - removed in 1978
  • 2 x BMARC GCM-AO3 30mm anti-aircraft guns - replaced by Mk.15 Phalanx CIWS in 1986
  • 2 x Oerlikon/BMARC 20mm/93-caliber autocannons - increased to 4 in 1983
• Aircraft Carried:

Unit Run

• HMS Bristol (D23)
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled
• HMS Unnamed - cancelled