Daniel Adamson
World Ship Society
Irish Sea Ships
HMS Cardiff - The Final Departure
Photographs © Chris Jones 2005
Assisted by Svitzer tugs HMS CARDIFF departs her "home port" for the very last time on July 12, 2005 sailing to Portsmouth for her paying off ceremony. She was constucted by Vickers the type 42 destroyer was commissioned in 1979.
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