The guided-missile destroyers HMS Kent (D12) L, and HMS Bristol (D23) R during the 1975 Portsmouth Navy Days. HMS Bristol was the only ship of the Type 82 class of destroyers to be built. She was launched in 1969 and commissioned in 1972. The ship was designed primarily for area air-defence, featuring the Sea Dart missile system visible in the image.

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