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HMS Sheffield D80 - Guided Missile Destroyer and HMS Wilton M1116 - Minesweeper/Hunter On a visit to Greenwich,London - 1975 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- HMS Sheffield D80 Type 42 Guided Missile Destroyer(Batch 2) 4820 / 1975 / UK Built Vickers Shipbuilders Ltd Laid down 15.10.1970 Launched 10.6.1971 Commissioned 16.2.1975 Sunk on 10.5.1982 HMS WILTON M1116 Minesweeper/ Hunter Ton Class Built Vosper Thorneycroft - Southampton Launched 18.1.1972 Commissioned 14.7.1973 -
HMS Upton M1187 Minesweeper / Hunter 350 / 1956/ UK Underway Thames - 1987 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- Ton Class Built by Thorneycroft at Southampton Laid down 1.5.1955 Completed 25.7.1956 Commissioned August 1956 Paid off 21.9.1990 Disposal 21st October 1991 Sold to Brugse Scheepssloperij for break-up. -
HMS Wilton M1116 Minesweeper / Hunter 450t displacement / 1973 / UK Alongside D80 at Greenwich - 1975 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- Ton Class The world's first GRP built hull warship Built by Thorneycroft.Southampton Laid down 7.8.1970 Completed 12.6.1973 Commissioned 14.7.1973 Paid off July 1994 Sold 2001 to Leigh - On Sea.Essex Sailing Club -
Westdiep F911 - Frigate 2200 / 1975 /Belgium / 5418275 Underway Portsmouth - 1994 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- Wielingen Class Built at Cockerills Yard,Hoboken,Antwerp Laid down 2.9.1974 Launched 8.12.1975 Commissioned 2.1.1978 Decommissioned 5.10.2007 Sold to Bulgarian Navy and named BNG Gordi F43 -
HMS Ark Royal R07 - Aircraft Carrier 22000/1985/UK/8949575 Moored Greenwich - 1987 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- Invincible Class Built by Swan Hunter,Tyneside Ordered Dec 1978 Laid down 14.12.1978 Launched 2.6.1981 Commissioned 1.11.1985 Decommissioned 11.3.2011 Sold for scrap to Turkish Company and departed Portsmouth for Aliaga in May 2013 -
HMS Illustrious R06 - Aircraft Carrier 22000/1982/UK/8949563 Leaving Portsmouth - 1994 Dave Smith Collection Notes:- Invincible Class Built at Swan Hunter,Tyne and Wear Ordered 14.5.1976 Laid down 7.10.1976 Launched 14.12.1978 Commissioned 20.6.1982 Decommissioned 28.8.2014 In 2016 sold to Turkish Company for scrap