HMS Bulwark
HMS Bulwark - decommissioned, laid up and awaiting scrappage.
The sixth HMS Bulwark of the Royal Navy was a 22,000 tonne Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier. Initially commissioned as a light aircraft carrier in 1954, the ship was converted into a commando carrier in 1958 and recommissioned as such in 1960. Bulwark remained in this capacity until 1979 when following failed efforts to sell the ship, Bulwark re-entered service as an anti-submarine warfare carrier and remained as such until being decommissioned in 1981. The ship was scrapped in 1984.
HMS Victory
As seen in 1983 before she was restored completely to her former glory.
Built in Chatham Dockyard in 1765 she is the world's oldest and longest serving commissioned warship.
Type 42 Destroyers
HMS Newcastle
HMS Glasgow with HMS Tartar outboard.
HMS Newcastle (left) and HMS Glasgow. Both batch 1 Type 42 destroyers. Outboard of Glasgow is HMS Tartar (F133), a tribal class Frigate.
Newcastle was built in 1975 and scrapped in 2008.
Glasgow was built in 1976 and scrapped in 2009.
Tartar was built in 1960. Sold to the Indonesian Navy in 1984, now decommissioned awaiting disposal.
HMS Kent
HMS Kent (D12) County Class Destroyer (built 1960, scrapped 1998). Seen here moored off Whale Island alongside the old support ship HMS Rame Head (built 1945 in Vancouver, scrapped 2009). Kent was used for many years as a hull in which to train cadets and new recruits. A role later taken over by HMS Bristol.
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible
Light aircraft carrier, (built 1977, sold for scrap in 2011).
Type 81 Tribal Class Frigates
HMS Tartar
HMS Gurkha
Tribal Class Frigates
Type 81 Tribal Class Frigates; HMS Tartar (F133) and HMS Gurkha (F122).
HMS Tartar built 1960 and decommissioned in 1984. Sold onto the Indonesian Navy, now decommissioned.
HMS Gurkha built 1960 and decommissioned in 1984. Sold onto the Indonesian Navy, decommissioned in 1999.
Leander Class Frigates
HMS Dido
HMS Dido
HMS Achilles
Leander Class Frigates
HMS Dido (F104), (left and centre), built 1963, sold to New Zealand in 1983 and scrapped 1993.
HMS Achilles built 1967, sold to Chile in 1991 and decommissioned in 2006. Achilles was washed away by a tsunami in 2010 and subsequently scuttled.
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick
Rothesay class frigate built 1958 and sunk as a target in 1986.
HMS Bristol
HMS Bristol
HMS Bristol (D23) is a Type 82 destroyer, the only vessel of her class to be built for the Royal Navy. Originally intended as the first of a class of large destroyers to escort the CVA-01 aircraft carriers projected to come into service in the early 1970s, Bristol turned out to be a unique ship: the rest of the class were cancelled with the CVA-01 carriers in the 1966 Strategic Defence Review. Following a long career which included the Falklands War, she was converted into a training ship in 1987 and continues to serve in that role.
