Model HMS Sheffield

by Gary Smith

This model was made by Gary Smith circa 1990; it is approximately 33" in length.

HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer, commissioned on 16 February 1975. She was part of Task Force 317 deployed to the Falkland Islands (Falklands War 1982). On 4 May 1982 she was heavily damaged by an Exocet missile from an Argentinian Super Étendard aircraft and sank under tow on 10 May 1982.