HMS Liverpool was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched on 25 September 1980 by Lady Strathcona, wife of Euan Howard, the then Minister of State for Defence. Liverpool was the last Type 42 Batch 2 in service.
Liverpool off Cape Wrath, Scotland, August 1986
Liverpool departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, 21 September 2009.
Liverpool berthed adjacent to Endurance, historic ship of the line Victory and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal.
Liverpool escorting the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in 2012
The Type 42 or Sheffield class, was a class of fourteen guided-missile destroyers that served in the Royal Navy. A further two ships of this class were built for and served with the Argentine Navy.
HMS Birmingham
Sheffield with the prominent exhaust deflectors on her funnel
ARA Hércules following her conversion