H.M.S. Sheffield
D.80
1980
(Seavee SV-570)
- Class: Type 42, Batch 1 - 6 guided missile destroyers of 1969
- Displacement: 3,850 tons normal, 4,350 tons full load
- Dimensions: 392 (wl) 412 (oa) x 47 x 19 ft.
- Machinery: COGOG: 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines 54,450 shp = 29 knots;
2 x Tyne RM1A gas auxiliaries (cruising) 8,200 shp = 18 knots
- Missiles: 2 Sea Dart SAM launchers
- Guns: 1-4.5"/55 gun; 2-20mm cannons
- ASW weapons:
- Aircraft: 1 Westland Sea Lynx HAS 3 ASW helicopter
- Complement: 268
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong (Barrow)
- Keel Laid: 15 Jan 1970
- Launched: 10 Jun 1971
- Commissioned: 16 Feb 1975
- Notes: Lead ship of the Type 42 guided missile destroyers. Hit and set on fire by an Argentine Exocet missile 4 May 1982 during the Falklands conflict; scuttled 10 May 1982.
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