| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Ordered: | 1 March 1977 |
| Builder: | Cammell Laird |
| Laid down: | 5 July 1978 |
| Launched: | 25 September 1980 |
| Sponsored by: | Lady Strathcona, wife of Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal |
| Commissioned: | 1 July 1982 |
| Status: | In active service, as of 2011 |
| Class and type: | Type 42 destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,820 tonnes |
| Length: | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.3 m (47 ft) |
| Propulsion: | COGOG (Combined Gas or Gas) turbines, 2 shafts, 2 turbines producing 36 MW |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 287 |
| Armament: | Twin Sea Dart missile launcher |
| 1 x 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun |
| 2 x 20 mm Oerlikon guns |
| 2 x Vulcan Phalanx Close-in weapon system (CIWS) |
| 2 x Triple anti-submarine torpedo tubes |
| NATO Seagnat and DLF3 Decoy Launchers |
| Aircraft carried: | Lynx HMA8 |
