HMS Edinburgh is the last of the Type 42 destroyers and is on her first stop on a round-Britain farewell tour which ends nearly 30 years of service. Watched by hundreds of people on both banks of ...

HMS Edinburgh has undertaken an intensive period of training and maintenance to prepare her for the tasks ahead. The largest of the Type 42 destroyers built for the Royal Navy, it was launched in ...

such as those carried out by HMS Cardiff in the Gulf enforcing UN trade sanctions on Iraq. There are eleven Type 42 destroyers, the Cardiff being the oldest dating back to 1974, although they are ...

Construction work on the Royal Navy's state-of-the-art anti-submarine warfare ship got underway today with a traditional steel-cutting ceremony in Glasgow. HMS Sheffield, which shares a name with ...

Fears over fire safety have reportedly caused Glasgow staff building a Royal Navy warship to down tools. HMS Glasgow, the first of eight Type 26 anti-submarine frigates ... In 1976 eight men were ...