Monday 10 June 2013

End of the Line for the Type 42 – the decommissioning the Type 42 Destroyer EDINBURGH this month brings to an end four decades of modern naval history.   The 28 year old EDINBURGH was the last of the last of the fourteen (14) ships in the class in service.   The Type 42s came to public consciousness during the Falklands with the loss of twenty (20) when the SHEFFIELD was hit by an Exocet missile,  and  three weeks later sister ship COVENTRY was bombed and sunk with the loss of twenty one (21) during a day of battle with the Argentine Air Force.   Later the GLOUCESTER intercepted an Iraqi missile bound for a US battleship in the Gulf, whilst LIVERPOOL more recently repeatedly (and accurately) pounded pro-Government forces in Libya in 2011.

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