Last Type 42 warship HMS Edinburgh decommissioned

A tearful farewell has been said to HMS Edinburgh after the crew of what is the last of the Royal Navy’s Type 42 destroyers returned to Portsmouth from its final deployment.

HMS Edinburgh has spent the last six months patrolling the Atlantic and will be decommissioned in June – having clocked up 793,345 miles. It is the last of the Type 42 class to go on active operations before they are replaced by new generation Type 45 destroyers.

And the sale of the “Fortress of the Sea” breaks a piece of Edinburgh’s maritime tradition, as there has been a naval vessel carrying the Capital’s name since the 1700s, while its crew have regularly visited the region for parades and other events over the years.

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