On this day 10 years ago in 2015, the last Type 42 Destroyer still afloat, HMS Gloucester, left HMNB Portsmouth to be scrapped at the Turkish yard that dismantled all but one (Birmingham) of her sisters. The departure is witnessed by the Type 42 successor, a Type 45 Destroyer.

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