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Friday, February 18, 2011

Cheers! Toast as Manchester’s engines shut down for last time

John Bullock, Rex CoxAfter an emotional last day at sea, HMS Manchester’s captain and head engineer raised a toast to the ship before shutting her engines down for the last time.

The Type 42 destroyer ended 30 years of service with a fun family day of action in the Solent.

After roaring up her 25,000 horsepower engines for a last 30-knot blow out, Manchester made her final entry into Portsmouth Harbour, where hundreds of well-wishers turned out to wave farewell.

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