Type 42 destroyer
Displacement: 4,820 tonnes, Length: 125 m (410 ft), Beam: 14.3 m (47 ft)
HMS Exeter was built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Limited. Her keel was laid down at Neptune Yard, Wallsend on 22 July 1976. Launched by Lady Joan Mulley on 25 April 1978, she was commissioned on 19 September 1980.