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The County class was a class of British guided missile destroyers, the first such warships built by the Royal Navy.Designed specifically around the Seaslug anti-aircraft missile system, the primary role of these ships was area air defence around the aircraft carrier task force in the nuclear-war environment.
HMS Glamorgan was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy with a displacement of 5,440 tonnes. The ship was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle Upon Tyne and named after the Welsh county of Glamorgan. [2] She was launched on 9 July 1964, and was delivered to the Royal Navy two years later.
Almirante Lynch class — 6 ships planned, 5 delivered; Serrano class — 6 ships; Almirante class — 2 ships; Blanco Encalada class — 2 ships and 1 spare ship, ex-Fletcher class; Serrano class — 4 ships, ex-Buckley class; Ministro Zenteno class — 2 ships, ex-Allen M. Sumner class; Prat class — 4 ships, ex-County class
HMS Norfolk (pennant D21) was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the fourth Group 2 and the last of the County-class built. The fifth ship named Norfolk, she was laid down on 15 March 1966 by Swan Hunter and launched by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk on 16 November 1967.
HMS Antrim was a County-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy launched on 19 October 1967. In the Falklands War, she was the flagship for the recovery of South Georgia, participating in the first ever anti-submarine operation successfully conducted exclusively by helicopters.
Hunt class: 86 ships (20 Type I, 36 Type II, 28 Type III, 2 Type IV), 1939–1942, "escort destroyers" L and M class: 16 ships, 1939–42; Town class: 50 ships from three classes of United States Navy destroyers, built 1917–1920, transferred 1940
HMS Hampshire was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.Laid down, in March 1959 a couple of weeks behind the class leader Devonshire, she was classified as a guided missile destroyer, as the Sea Lords regarded the concept of the cruiser and big gun ship as discredited by the perceived failure of the Tiger class and the obsolescence of the heavy gun.
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