| Name: | CARDIFF |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 06/11/1972 |
| Launched: | 22/02/1974 |
| Completed: | 24/09/1979 |
| Builder: | Vickers Shipbuilders & Engineering Ltd and Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Yard: | Barrow and Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 1091 (both yards) |
| Dimensions: | 3500disp - 4820disp, 125.00oa x 14.30 x 5.8(draft)metres |
| Engines: | 2 x Olympus TM3B & 2 x Tyne RM1A gas turbines, 58500shp |
| Engines by: | Rolls Royce |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0+knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x Vickers Mk8 4.5ins gun, 1 x twin Sea Dart AA missile, 2 x 3 x 12.75ins torpedoes |
| 2 x 20mm Oerlikon guns, 2 x Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, 1 x Lynx HMA8 helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 24/09/1979 | British Royal Navy |
| 24/12/2008 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A member of the Type 42 - Batch 1 class of destroyers |
| Allocated pennant D108 | |
| Exact configuration of smaller weapons varied during life time | |
| The construction was interrupted by a labour shortage at Vickers | |
| 09/02/1976: Arrived under tow on the Tyne for completion | |
| 14/07/2005: Decommissioned at Fareham Creek, Portsmouth | |
| 21/11/2008: Left Portsmouth, in tow for breaking up at Aliaga, Turkey | |
| 22/12/2008: Arrived at Aliaga | |
| 24/12/2008: Beached at Aliaga |
Above photo at Barrow, dated 14/09/1974, is copyright of Dennis Maccoy. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above photo at Hebburn is copyright of John Johnson
Above photo at Hebburn, dated 11/11/1978, is copyright of Dennis Maccoy
Above photo, dated 06/1979, is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above trials photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return
Above photo is courtesy of John Bage
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Above photo is copyright of Royal Navy
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Above: CARDIFF (L) & NEWCASTLE (R) - beached at Aliaga. Photo is courtesy of Selim San
Above photo - beached at Aliaga, is courtesy of Selim San
Above cutaway drawing of a Type 42 Destroyer is copyright of the Royal Navy. CLICK to enlarge/BACK to return