HMS Sheffield is the fifth vessel of her ... The last vessel to carry the name of the City of Sheffield was a Type 42 missiles destroyer, commissioned on 16 February 1975, and as part Task Force ...

11033238.2 The replacement for the destroyers of the County-class, were much more compact and austere than their fore bearers. The primary role of the Type 42s was to provide ... The loss of HMS ...

The second HMS Sheffield, a Type 42 destroyer, was lost during the Falklands War. The naming of HMS Sheffield, the fifth ship in the city-class of Type 26 frigates, came as Defence Secretary Gavin ...

The Type 42 HMS destroyers, also known as the Sheffield class, were a class of fourteen guided missile destroyers that were first ordered in 1968 and launched in 1971. The Royal Navy used this ...

The UK’s Royal Navy announced the first steel has been cut for the future HMS Sheffield ... which struck the Type 42 guided missile destroyer. While it has been disputed whether the missile ...

Ever since the Falkland Islands War and the sinking of the Royal Navy’s HMS Sheffield Type 42 destroyer in 1982, the world has been asking whether or not capital ships were going to be ...

And it is 42 years since the second HMS Sheffield, a Type 42 destroyer, was hit by an Argentinian missile during the Falklands War, tragically killing 20 crew members and injuring many more.

The HMS Sheffield which saw service in the Falklands was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer. She was struck and heavily damaged by an Exocet air-launched anti-ship missile from an Argentine Super ...