HMS York comes home for the final time

[DamienB]

As the RAF have retired just about everything worth photographing I'm doing ships now too...

Fastest of the 42s... HMS York came back home to Pompey today to cheers from the crowd gathered on the Round Tower and a noisy gun salute answered by the gun on Fort Blockhouse. Always sad to see a ship coming in with her paying off pennant flying - now we have just one Type 42, HMS Edinburgh, and she's due to be decommissioned next year.

HMS York was launched in 1982 (a week before the Argies surrendered in the Falklands) and has been in service since 1985. During her career she has earned battle honours in the second Gulf War and was also part of the preparations for operations in Libya and humanitarian efforts after that conflict had come to a halt.

[davepoth]

Sad, but 30 years is a long time for a warship.

[DamienB]

It is indeed, and they're thoroughly outclassed in a modern battle but when I was a young 'un the Type 42 was new - sleek - deadly - it *was* the RN to me. Be a really sad day when the last one goes.

[LotusOmega375D]

Remember reading about them when I was a kid. I'm 42 myself now so they've had a good innings. They do have a certain elegance though. It seems to be the modern way that ships of all types end up looking uglier than their predecessors.

[Simpo Two]

A remarkably long foredeck. Room for many more guns...

[anonymous-user]

probably had the busiest year of its career in the last 12 months too!

[LotusOmega375D]

What's the source of the flash on the third photo?

[Taffer]

LotusOmega375D said:

What's the source of the flash on the third photo?

Saluting cannon - I think using the 4 1/2 inch gun might be considered a bit rude.

Simpo Two said:

A remarkably long foredeck. Room for many more guns...

Not when you see the size of the Sea Dart magazine and all the gubbins taking up space under the foredeck!



I was on York in 2006 for my sea phase when I was at BRNC Dartmouth - Black Sea, Med. and Beirut evacuations (Op. Highbrow) - fun times!

Edited by Taffer on Friday 21st September 11:04

[Squirrelofwoe]

davepoth said:

Sad, but 30 years is a long time for a warship.

Pah, Victory was older than that by the time of Trafalgar!

Although I will concede that tech, and subsequent tech obsolescence has moved on a bit since those halcyon days...

[northwest monkey]

I like that!

If I won big on the Euromillions, could that be turned into a personal boat?

I appreciate it might need a bit spending on the interior - I imagine it's a bit "military chic" at the moment, but it would look ace painted black

[Mr. Potato Head]

Simpo Two said:

A remarkably long foredeck. Room for many more guns...

I seem to remember reading that the short hull ones were a bit focussing in high seas

[northwest monkey]

I like that!

If I won big on the Euromillions, could that be turned into a personal boat?

I appreciate it might need a bit spending on the interior - I imagine it's a bit "military chic" at the moment, but it would look ace painted black

[Simpo Two]

Mr. Potato Head said:

I seem to remember reading that the short hull ones were a bit focussing in high seas

Focussing?

[IanMorewood]

northwest monkey said:

I like that!

If I won big on the Euromillions, could that be turned into a personal boat?

I appreciate it might need a bit spending on the interior - I imagine it's a bit "military chic" at the moment, but it would look ace painted black

Be a tad pricey to run as a your own yacht, both the gas turbines and the crew costs would eat into your euromillions faster than you would like. Mind would make cruising in the western Indian Ocean a bit more fun.

[Godalmighty83]

Simpo Two said:

Focussing?

Perhaps a bit more polite then 'butt puckering'.


Certainly a very sleek ship but has had a decent innings as far as a well used and travelled 'modern ship' can.

[CDP]

IanMorewood said:

Be a tad pricey to run as a your own yacht, both the gas turbines and the crew costs would eat into your euromillions faster than you would like. Mind would make cruising in the western Indian Ocean a bit more fun.

I can't imagine the pirates off the east coast of Africa would want to mess with you either. Having said that they tried to board a French destroyer last year which must have been a shock

[Seight_Returns]

Always thought the Batch 3 T42s were handsome ships.

Did the T42s have Phallanx on the foredeck rather than amidships at one point - or did I imagine that ?

[DamienB]

Think you must have imagined it - it'd get in the way of the 4.5 and the Sea Dart.

[dazco]

CDP said:

I can't imagine the pirates off the east coast of Africa would want to mess with you either. Having said that they tried to board a French destroyer last year which must have been a shock

They probably knew it was French

[Aydena]

Tis a Damn shame,

I done alot of work on the gearbox's when it was last in for a major re-fit, big hefty ol' clutches on them