Type 45 Destroyers: Deployment
(asked on 9th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times the UK's six Type 45 destroyers have been put to sea in the last twelve months.
Answered by
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 15th July 2019
The normal operating cycle of every ship involves them entering different readiness levels depending on their programmes and Departmental planning requirements.
From records available, the number of days each Type 45 destroyer has spent at sea between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 is shown below.
Type 45 | Total number of days at sea |
HMS DEFENDER | 118 |
HMS DIAMOND | 91 |
HMS DRAGON | 154 |
HMS DUNCAN | 116 |
HMS DARING | 0 |
HMS DAUNTLESS | 0 |
TOTAL | 479 |