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
Bristol in 1982
HMS Bristol badge
On board HMS Bristol, 2005
Bristol at Ascension Island with a Chinook helicopter flying overhead in 1982
HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS Excellent is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with a headquarters at HMS Collingwood, a
HMS Bristol (D23)
…1991 that damaged the vessel beyond economical repair. No longer having enough value to be sold to another navy, she became a Harbour Training Ship at HMS Excellent. She was decommissioned in Portsmouth on 28 October 2020, and her ship's bell was given to the Lord Mayor's Chapel in Bristol where it can be seen when…
An aerial photo of HMS Excellent during 2005. The red building is Navy Command Headquarters
HMS Excellent: the Quarterdeck Block (originally containing a gymnasium, lecture theatre, warrant officers' mess, church rooms and the Church of St Barbara).
The Royal Navy's Fire Fighting Training Unit has been based at the northern tip of Whale Island since the 1990s.
HMS Bristol alongside Whale Island.