HMS Coventry (D118)
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HMS Coventry was a Type 42-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 197
HMS Coventry
Enroute to the Falklands Islands in 1982
Memorial to the dead of HMS Coventry in Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Type 42 destroyer
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The Type 42 or Sheffield class was developed to provide the Royal Navy with a cost-effective, medium-sized guided-missile destroyer focused on fleet air defence. Conceived in the late 1960s after the
HMS Birmingham
ARA Hércules following her conversion