Final farewell for an Iconic Falklands War destroyer HMS Bristol
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Final farewell for an Iconic Falklands War destroyer HMS Bristol
A Royal Navy destroyer that participated in the Falklands War left Portsmouth Harbor on Friday, June 13th, and is travelling to Turkey, where she will be recycled. A small group of spectators came to see HMS Bristol, the only Type 82 ever built of her class, being towed out of Portsmouth Harbor to start her journey to an EU-approved recycling yard in Turkey.
Having been discharged in 2020, the historic destroyer Type 82 HMS Bristol, unique of his class and last British ship in service who participated in the Malvinas War, sailed on the morning of Wednesday 11 June from Portsmouth to Turkey, where it will be finally scrapped. Towed from the Naval Base that was his home for decades, the ship was fired by a group of veterans and former crew members who gathered at the Round Tower of the Old Town of Por…
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