Type 82 destroyer
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The Type 82 or Bristol-class destroyer was a 1960s guided missile destroyer design intended to replace County-class destroyers in the Royal Navy. Originally eight warships were planned to provide area
HMS Bristol
HMS Bristol (D23)
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HMS Bristol was a Type 82 destroyer, the only vessel of her class to be built for the Royal Navy. Bristol was intended to be the first of a class of large destroyers to escort the CVA-01 aircraft carr
Type 82 destroyer
…the need for such a large warship. In its place a smaller design carrying Sea Dart for air defence entered service as the Type 42 class. One Type 82, HMS Bristol, was ordered to act as a testbed for the various technologies to be used on future ships. Sometimes described as a "light cruiser", she was officially…
Bristol in 1982
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On board HMS Bristol, 2005
Bristol at Ascension Island with a Chinook helicopter flying overhead in 1982