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 ...

HMS Liverpool is on its way to be broken up at a Turkish scrap yard. The Type 42 destroyer, nicknamed “Crazy Red Chicken” after her red Liver Bird badge, was built by Cammell Laird in 1982 and ...

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 ...