Type 42 "Town" or "Sheffield" Class (Batch 1) Destroyer "HMS Sheffield", 3,500 tons, launched 1971, commissioned 1975. Note the experimental funnel with twin side vents which was only fitted to the Sheffield, the rest having conventional funnels. The for and aft Type 909 radars are without fibreglass domes. The ship was sunk by an Exocet attack in the Falklands War 1982. At the Portsmouth Navy Day, 08/80. Scanned photograph taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/58433307@N08">Hugh Llewelyn</a> from Keynsham, UK
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