Vintage Classic: HMS Devonshire
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HMS Devonshire was the first County-class destroyer and the first batch 1 ship in the Royal Navy.
The ship was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead near Liverpool.
With a displacement of 5440 tons (6850 tons full load), Devonshire was named after the English county of Devon.
She was launched on June 10, 1960 and delivered to the Navy two years later.
She was decommissioned in 1978 and spent the next six years in Portsmouth Harbor when a proposed sale to the Egyptian Navy fell through.
For such a remarkable ship, she would meet a rather ignominious end as the target ship, sunk by HMS Splendid in the North Atlantic on July 17, 1984, just days after serving as a floating target during Sea Eagle anti-ship missile tests. .
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Plastic model kit
Scale 1:600
unbuilt / unpainted
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