This is an Admiralty 'R' type Destroyer
Completed in 1916-17
Other ships in this class
' HMS Restless', 'HMS Sable', 'HMS Thisbe', 'HMS Thruster', 'HMS Skate', 'HMS Tetrarch', 'HMS Torrid', 'HMS Tempest'
Friday 27 April, 2007. The Bow section for HMS Diamond arrives in the Clyde, en route to Bae Govan shipbuilders.
HMS Diamond is the third ship of the Type 45 or 'D' Class of air defence destroyer (AAW) being built for the Royal Navy. She is due to be launched in November of 2007.
1968 ROMMEL. One of a group of three guided-missile destroyers built in the USA for the Federal German Navy in the latter half of the 1960s to the pattern of the later Charles F Adams class, and known in Germany as the Ltjens class.
THE LUTJENS CLASS
The three German Type 103 destroyers...
1968 MOLDERS. One of a group of three guided missile destroyers built in the USA in the latter half of the 1960s to the pattern of the later Charles F Adams class, and known in Germany as the Ltjens class.
THE LUTJENS CLASS
The three German Type 103 destroyers Lutjens, named after a...
1967 LUTJENS. Named after Admiral Gunther Ltjens, commander of the German fleet from 1940, the LOtjens was the leader of a class of three ships that were versions of destroyers built for the US Navy.
AMERICAN ASSISTANCE
The three Type 102B destroyers of the Ltjens class were based closely...
1962 BAYER. One of a class of four Type 101UI destroyers constructed for the Federal German Republics navy and in service for three decades from the mid-1960s.
THE HAMBURG CLASS
West Germany acquired her first destroyers six ex-US Fletcher-class ships
between 1958 and 1960, and at that...
1960 HAMBURG. The Federal Republic of Germany constructed a class of four Type 101 A destroyers, led by the Hamburg, in the early 1960s, the biggest warships built in Germany since the Second World War.
NEW BIG DESTROYERS
West Germany acquired her first destroyers six ex-US Fletcher-class...
1970 ACONIT A prototype anti-submarine corvette or destroyer built for the French Navy. Her name commemorates a Flower-class corvette of the wartime Free French Navy.
AN EXPERIMENTAL SHIP
The Aconit was the prototype for what the French Navy hoped would be a new series of convoy escorts...
1937 BALISTE. Baliste was one of a class of 12 sub- 600 ton ships originally designated as escorts and intended for operation in the Mediterranean. She was to serve with three navies in the course of her very short life.
THE 600-TON CLASS
The London Naval Conference of 1930 allowed...
1936 KLEBER. Along with a sister-ship, the Desaix, Klber originally served with the Kriegs marine before serving briefly with the French Navy during the 1950s.
THE GERMAN TYPE 1934A DESTROYERS
These formed a class of 12 ships, launched in 1 936-7, four of which were lost on 13 April 1940...
1933 LETERRIBLE. The six ships of the Le Fantasque class, of which Le Terrible was the second to be completed, were what the French call Contre-Torpilleurs: heavily-armed, fast destroyers with good endurance in all sorts of conditions.
THE LE FANTASQUE CLASS
The six ships were ordered...
1899 DURANDAL. The first true torpedo-boat destroyer constructed for the French Navy, leader of a class of four and a series of six basically similar classes, all of around 300 tons.
1993 USS FITZGERALD. One of a large class - the Arleigh Burkes of guidedmissile destroyers, the most sophisticated of their type in the world at the end of the twentieth century, put into service by the US Navy from 1991.
THE ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS
Planned to complement the Ticonderoga-class...
1973 USS SPRUANCE. Too big and poorly armed was the general view of the 31
ships that made up the Spruance class, but the addition of launchers for Tomahawk cruise missiles improved them.
TYPE SCN-275
On 23 June 1 970, giant US defence contractor Litton Industries received a contract to...
1958 USS FARRAGUT. Leader of a class of big, fast, heavily-armed fleet escorts, originally classed as frigates and subsequently as guided-missile destroyers, which were built for the US Navy during the latter half of the 1950s.
THE FARRAGUT/COONTZ CLASS
Sometimes known as the Coontz class...
1945 USS BASILONE. One of the 97 ships of the Gearing class, constructed in yards au over the USA between 1944 and 1946 and destined to see very long service.
THE GEARING CLASS
The Gearings were the best destroyers the US Navy had during the Second World War, heavily armed with the same...
1945 USS HANSON. One of the 97 ships of the Gearing class, constructed in yards all over the USA between 1944 and 1946 and destined to see very long service.
THE GEARING CLASS
The Gearings were the best destroyers the US Navy had during the Second World War, heavily armed with the same...
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