The largest of the Type 42 destroyers built for the Royal Navy, it was launched in 1983 ... The ships are being sold as part of the British government's 2010 Strategic Defence Review, which ...

confirmed the incident and told the outlet that it was the first time a missile was intercepted in combat by a Royal Navy warship since 1991. During the Gulf War, the Type 42 destroyer HMS ...

Ever since the Falkland Islands War and the sinking of the Royal Navy’s HMS Sheffield Type 42 destroyer in 1982, the world ...

Here, British soldiers carry a simulated casualty during an exercise in Wales. The Royal Navy is the fifth largest ... called "fortress of the sea," is a Type 42 destroyer that was decommissioned ...