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HMS ''Cardiff'' was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. Construction was started by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and completed by Swan Hunter: Hawthorn Leslies Yard Hebburn in Tyne and Wear. ''Cardiff'' was launched on 22 February 1974. During her career, ''Cardiff'' served in the Falklands War, where she shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the conflict and accepted the surrender of a 700-strong garrison in the settlement of Port Howard. During the 1991 Gulf War, her Lynx helicopter sank two Iraqi minesweepers. She later participated in the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as part of the Royal Navy's constant Armilla patrol; ''Cardiff'' thwarted attempts to smuggle oil out of the country, but was not involved in the actual invasion. ''Cardiff'' was decommissioned in July 2005, having earned two battle honours for service in the Falklands and Gulf wars. She was sent to Turkey for scrapping despite calls by former servicemen for her to be preserved as a museum ship and local tourist attraction in Cardiff. == Construction == The Type 42 destroyers (also known as the ''Sheffield''-class) were made in three batches;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Type 42 Sheffield class )〕 ''Cardiff'' was built in the first. She cost over £30 million, which was double her original quoted price. Her keel was laid down on 6 November 1972, at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd in Cumbria. The build was interrupted by a labour shortage at Vickers. To solve this problem, she was towed to Swan Hunter in Tyne and Wear and completed there. Type 42s were designed as anti-aircraft vessels primarily equipped with the Sea Dart, a surface-to-air missile system capable of hitting targets up to away.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sea Dart )〕 ''Cardiffs secondary weapon system was a 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun, capable of firing shells to a range of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=114 mm (4.5 inch) Gun )〕 After the Falklands War, in which two Type 42s were sunk by enemy aircraft, the entire class was equipped with the Phalanx close-in weapon system,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Type 42 destroyer )〕 a Gatling cannon that fires 3,000 rounds per minute and is designed to shoot down anti-ship missiles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Cardiff (D108)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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