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HMS Cardiff

IMO 4907024Built 1979

Operated by Royal Navy

Photo: The original uploader was Ryan4314 at English Wikipedia. (Original text: Mr. Mike Pocock, David Page) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About HMS Cardiff

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HMS Cardiff was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
Cardiff served in the Falklands War, where she was involved in the 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident. She also shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the conflict and accepted the surrender of a 700-strong garrison in the settlement of Port Howard.
During the 1991 Gulf War, her Lynx helicopter sank two Iraqi minesweepers. She later participated in the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as part of the Royal Navy's constant Armilla patrol, but was not involved in the actual invasion.
Cardiff was decommissioned in July 2005, and sent for scrapping despite calls by former servicemen for her to be preserved as a museum ship and local tourist attraction in Cardiff.

Quoted from HMS Cardiff (D108) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number

In context

How HMS Cardiff compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

HMS Cardiff was built in 1979, making it 47 years old. It is one of 1,718 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,382 GT. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 10 vessels to Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, with a median tonnage of 7,206 GT, delivered between 1948 and 2002. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 4907024 this registry holds 30 other vessels, whose median build year is 1985 and which range from 1945 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1979.

Its IMO number, 4907024, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 4×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 7×4 + 0×3 + 2×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
HMS Exeter	4907036	1980
HMS Glasgow	4907012	1979
HMS Newcastle	4907000	1978
HMS Southampton	4907048	1981

Class

Sister ships in the Type 42 guided missile destroyer class

9 on record

Ship	IMO	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage
HMS Newcastle	4907000	—	1978	—
HMS Glasgow	4907012	—	1979	—
HMS Exeter	4907036	—	1980	—
HMS Southampton	4907048	—	1981	—
HMS Liverpool	4907062	—	1982	4,045
HMS Manchester	4907074	—	1982	0
HMS Nottingham	4907050	—	1983	0
HMS Gloucester	4907086	—	1985	—
HMS York	4907103	—	1985	0