theCOUNTY CLASSd
1. Port anchor Admiralty cast pattern 14 35. Type 182 towed sonar (stowed) 63. 25ft Cheverton motor boat
2. Cable deck (guardrails lowered for action) 36. Telescopic mast (for 901 alignment) 64. 20-man liferafts
3. 4.5in Mk6 mounting 37. Propeller guard 65. STWS triple torpedo tubes (port and starboard)
4. Wood deck 38. Twin rudders 66. 24ft Fairy Huntress (Captain’s boat)
5. GWS 50 Exocet launcher (x 4) 39. Twin propellers (fi ve-bladed) 67. Fuel can stowage
6. Enclosed bridge; Union Jack painted on top 40. Bilge keel 68. GWS 22 director with type 904 radar (port and
7. MRS 3 director type 903 radar 41. Stabiliser fi n starboard)
8. Direction fi nding antenna 42. Sonar hull outfi t 18 for 184 sonar 69. General purpose davit (port and starboard)
9. Whip aerials 43. Sonar hull outfi t 21 70. GWS 22 Sea Cat quad missile launcher (port and
10. Gunnery direction platform 44. 3D Junior ratings’ mess (45 men) starboard)
11. Type 1006 radar aerial (navigation) 45. Junior ratings’ forward heads 71. Helicopter hangar
12. Foremast yardarms 46. 3E Junior ratings’ mess (63 men) 72. Crew’s galley
13. AYJ aerial outfi t 47. 2E Junior ratings’ mess (39 men) 73. Senior ratings’ dining hall
14. Type 992Q radar aerial (target indication) 48. Captain’s sea cabin 74. Junior ratings’ dining hall
15. Sea ensign 49. No.1 CPOs’ mess (21 men) 75. Junior ratings’ mess (26 men)
16. Wire cage aerial outfi t 50. Operations room 76. Junior ratings’ mess (60 men)
17. Fog horn and daylight signalling lantern 51. Admiral’s day and dining cabin 77. Junior ratings’ mess (60 men)
18. Signal deck 52. Offi cer cabins
19. 20mm single Oerlikon mounting 53. Captain’s day and dining cabin
20. Corvus 3in rocket launcher (port and starboard) 54. Wardroom
21. Type 667 electronic warfare aerial 55. Accommodation ladder (port and starboard)
22. HF TX folded sleeve aerial 56. Senior ratings’ forward bathroom
23. Type 965M air-warning radar 57. Boiler room
24. Mk 1010 radar aerial (identifi cation friend or foe) 58. Steam turbine control room
25. Mainmast yardarms 59. Steam turbine room
26. Type 278M radar aerial (height fi nding) 60. Gearing room
27. SCOT 1 satellite navigation system 61. Gas turbine room
28. Red Dragon insignia (removed during war) 62. After funnel uptakes
29. Sailing dinghy stowage
30. Telemetry MBA outfi t
31. GWS 22 director with type 901M radar
32. Wessex HAS 3 helicopter
33. Seaslug GWS 2 twin missile launcher
34. Hydraulic davit (sonar equipment)
GRACEFUL and powerful
– descriptions frequently
applied to His and Her
Majesty’s ships in the age
of iron and steel – were
adjectives epitomised
by the County-class
destroyer, Britain’s fi rst
true warship of the missile
age.
For two decades these fine
ships were the Fleet’s first line
of defence against air attack
– bolstered from the early
1970s by HMS Bristol and the
first Type 42 destroyers, led by
HMS Sheffield.
Two batches of County-
class ships were ordered by
the Admiralty in the late 1950s
and early 1960s.
The first comprised Her
Majesty’s Ships London (D16),
Devonshire (D02), Hampshire
(D06) and Kent (D12), the
second Fife (D20), Glamorgan
(D19), Antrim (D18) and Norfolk
(D21), the last County to be
laid down in February 1966.
All eight were designed
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