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 ... The primary role of the Type 42s was to provide area air defence for the ships they had to escort. With their long-range sensor fit they also ...

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 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 ...

The captain of the destroyer HMS Nottingham and three of his former ... Commander Richard Farrington, 43, the captain of the type 42 destroyer, pleaded guilty to failing to delegate the ...