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Built To Destroy

"Royal Navy 'County' Class Destroyer "HMS KENT" in the Portsmouth Navy Yards in July 1989.

 

Name: HMS Kent Ordered: 6 February 1957 Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast Laid down: 1 March 1960 Launched: 27 September 1961 Commissioned: 15 August 1963 Decommissioned: 1980 Struck: 1993 Identification: Pennant number: D12 Fate: Sold for scrap in 1998 Class & type: County-class destroyer Beam: 53 ft (16 m) Propulsion: COSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts Aircraft carried: 1 × Lynx or Wessex helicopter

 

Camera: Olympus AZ-4 Zoom 35mm SLR

 

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Uploaded on August 10, 2013
Taken on July 1, 1989