The last vessel to carry the name of the City of Sheffield was a Type 42 missiles destroyer, commissioned on 16 February 1975, and as part Task Force 317 sent was involved in the Falklands conflict.

One of the ships to bear this name was tragically sunk in the Falklands War in May 1982, and a memorial backed by Sheffield benefactors was launched on its 40th anniversary. HMS Sheffield ...

Work has begun on the fourth HMS Sheffield, as one of the most famous names in British maritime history prepares to write a new chapter. The first steel plates for the fifth of the Royal Navy’s ...

The UK's Royal Navy announced the first steel has been cut for the future HMS Sheffield, the fifth of eight Type 26 frigates that will be built for the senior service. A steel-cutting ceremony was ...

Survivors, the families of those lost and VIPs have gathered 40 years to the day since HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War on 4th May 1982. They watched as a new ...

Twenty crew were killed when an Argentine Exocet missile hit HMS Sheffield, on 4 May 1982. The memorial, resembling the prow of a ship breaking through the waves, was designed by artist Peter Naylor.

HMS Sheffield, which shares a name with, among others, a ship sunk during the Falklands War more than four decades ago, is the fifth of eight Type 26 frigates being built in Scotland at an ...

Veterans were joined by Sea Cadets for the ceremony in Sheffield city centre Veterans of the Falklands War have marched through Sheffield to honour those killed when HMS Sheffield was destroyed 40 ...

HMS Sheffield is the latest City-class Type 26 frigate to come under production in Scotland. A traditional steel-cutting ceremony took place in Glasgow to mark the project, with nearly 2,000 jobs ...

Construction work on the Royal Navy's state-of-the-art anti-submarine warfare ship got underway today with a traditional steel-cutting ceremony in Glasgow. HMS Sheffield, which shares a name with ...