High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Birmingham (D86) was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976. She was named for the city of Birmingham, England. "The Brum" spent much of her useful life as Fleet Contingency Ship (FCS 1) and spent considerable time in the post-Falklands conflict patrol role. In 1984 she patrolled the Falklands and acted as a radar picket ship along with HMS Broadsword and the rapidly ageing HMS Ajax.

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