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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Final trip for HMS Gloucester after Falklands’ duties and Saxon Warrior exercise

HMS GloucesterThe 29 year-old Type 42 destroyer holds the record for the first successful engagement of a missile by another missile in combat at sea during the Gulf War.

She is being decommissioned next month as the Royal Navy’s fleet of ageing Type 42s is gradually being phased out to make way for the new hi-tech Type 45 destroyers.

HMS Gloucester – which has clocked up 787,928 miles during service across the globe, marked her final entry to the Naval Base in traditional fashion by flying a decommissioning pennant.

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