D108 HMS Cardiff 1983
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Description
18 June 1983, Portsmouth: HMS Cardiff (D108) was a Type 42 destroyer. Construction was started by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and completed by Swan Hunter in Tyne and Wear. HMS Cardiff was launched on 22 February 1974. Cardiff served in the Falklands War, where she shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the conflict and accepted the surrender of a 700-strong garrison in the settlement of Port Howard. During the 1991 Gulf War, her Lynx helicopter sank two Iraqi minesweepers. She later participated in the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as part of the Royal Navy's constant Armilla patrol. Cardiff was decommissioned in July 2005, having earned two battle honours for service in the Falklands and Gulf wars. She was sent to Turkey for scrapping despite calls by former servicemen for her to be preserved as a museum ship and local tourist attraction in Cardiff. -
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What does this mean? Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
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Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50256734@N05/5486753836/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
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Picture Taken: 1983-06-18T19:53:45 -
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