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|Ordered:
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|Laid down:
|15 January 1970
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|Launched:
|10 June 1971
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|Commissioned:
|16 February 1975
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|Decommissioned:
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|Fate:
|Sunk by Argentine air attack on 4 May 1982 during Falklands War
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics
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|Displacement:
|4,820 tonnes
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|Length:
|410 feet
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|Beam:
|47 feet
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|Draught:
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|Propulsion:
|COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts HMS Sheffield (D80) was the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Sheffield, after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. She was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970, launched on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975. The ship was part of the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falkland Islands War. She was struck by an Exocet cruise missile fired by an Argentine aircraft during on May 4, 1982 and abandoned. The burnt out hulk was taken in tow by the Rothesay Class Frigate HMS Yarmouth but sank on 10 May 1982, the first Royal Navy vessel sunk in action for almost forty years. Twenty one of her crew died during the attack and the wreck is a designated war grave.
See HMS Sheffield for other ships of the same name.