HMS Edinburgh D97
HMS Edinburgh D97 was a 'stretched' Type 42 (Batch 3) 'Sheffield' Class Destroyer of the Royal Navy, and we see Edinburgh in glorious light as she leaves Devonport Naval Base and passes Plymouth Hoe on 26th June 2002. Built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, she was launched in April 1983 and commissioned on 17th December 1985. HMS Edinburgh was the largest of the Type 42s, and was known as the 'Fortress of the Sea,' and also had the distinction of being the final Type 42 destroyer to serve in the Royal Navy, being decommissioned on 6 June 2013 and scrapped in August 2015. Like many of her sisters, a ship scrapped long before her time, and how we could do with some upgraded stretched Type 42 Destroyers in the Royal Navy today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMz5381_v0