HMS Sheffield (D80)

HMS Sheffield
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Sheffield
Ordered	14 November 1968[1][2]
Builder	Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
Laid down	15 January 1970
Launched	10 June 1971
Sponsored by	Queen Elizabeth II
Commissioned	16 February 1975[1]
Identification	Pennant number: D80
Motto	Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit (Latin: "With God's help our labour is successful")
Nickname(s)	Shiny Sheff
Fate	Sunk on 10 May 1982
Notes	Foundered under tow following Exocet missile attack and subsequent fire
General characteristics
Class and type	Type 42 destroyer
Displacement	4,820 tonnes
Length	125 m (410 ft 1 in)
Beam	14.3 m (46 ft 11 in)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	4 Rolls-Royce (2 Olympus TM3B and 2 Tyne) producing 36 MW COGOG (combined gas or gas) arrangement
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	21 officers and 249 ratings[3]
Armament	2 × Sea Dart surface-to-air missile launcher 1 × 4.5-inch (114 mm) Mk.8 gun
Aircraft carried	Lynx HAS1

HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer and the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Commissioned on 16 February 1975 the Sheffield was part of the Task Force 317 sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck and heavily damaged by an Exocet air-launched anti-ship missile from an Argentine Super Étendard aircraft on 4 May 1982 and foundered while under tow on 10 May 1982.