Type 42 'Sheffield' Class Destroyers
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
HMS Nottingham D91
One from the archives! 10 years ago and nearing the end of her career with the Royal Navy, we see batch II Type 42 'Sheffield' Class Destroyer HMS Nottingham D91 in Plymouth Sound on 2nd August 2007. Launched on 18th February 1980, HMS Nottingham was commissioned into the fleet and withdrawn after a working life of 30 years on 11th February 2010. The ship had a displacement of 4820 tons and was 410 feet long with a beam of 47 feet. The ship's motto was 'Foy pour devoir,' French for "Faith for Duty," and her twin Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines could propel her to speeds of up to 30 knots.