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Friday, July 24, 2009

Royal Navy's biggest warship commissioned

HMS DaringThe Royal Navy's newest and most advanced warship, the £650 million HMS Daring, has been formally welcomed into the fleet.

Sophie, The Countess of Wessex, attended the commissioning event for the first of the six new Type 45 destroyers held at Portsmouth Naval Base.

Daring, which was built at a cost of £650 million, is the navy's largest and most advanced air defence destroyer and is the seventh ship to bear the name.

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