Heeling Under Power
This is HMS Nottingham (D91), a Batch 2 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, in the English Channel. She is seen conducting manoeuvres during the 1986 Staff College Sea Days. Having been passed by several warships, each providing a commentary on her capabilities, weapons and equipment to the students on the upper deck, she is turning sharply under the stern of the last in line, HMS Boxer, and accelerating off to the next evolution. The combination of an application of power to the propellers and a hard "left hand down a bit" is producing the heel as she begins crossing our wake.
Launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983, she was the sixth ship to bear the name. "The Notty" was the last of the short Type 42s and suffered from the usual stressing of the flexible joint amidships (but structural strengthening was not fitted at the time of this photo).
She was eventually decommissioned in February 2010 and sent to Turkey for scrapping in 2011.
Heeling Under Power
This is HMS Nottingham (D91), a Batch 2 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, in the English Channel. She is seen conducting manoeuvres during the 1986 Staff College Sea Days. Having been passed by several warships, each providing a commentary on her capabilities, weapons and equipment to the students on the upper deck, she is turning sharply under the stern of the last in line, HMS Boxer, and accelerating off to the next evolution. The combination of an application of power to the propellers and a hard "left hand down a bit" is producing the heel as she begins crossing our wake.
Launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983, she was the sixth ship to bear the name. "The Notty" was the last of the short Type 42s and suffered from the usual stressing of the flexible joint amidships (but structural strengthening was not fitted at the time of this photo).
She was eventually decommissioned in February 2010 and sent to Turkey for scrapping in 2011.