HMS Sheffield is the fifth vessel of her kind, and will be one of eight of the world's most advanced frigates. The last vessel to carry the name of the City of Sheffield was a Type 42 missiles ...

The UK’s Royal Navy announced the first steel has been cut for the future HMS Sheffield, the fifth of eight Type 26 frigates that will be built for the senior service. A steel-cutting ceremony was ...

New vessel to carry city’s name is one of five new warships It is to be the latest in a historic list of warships to carry the name of our city. And engineers now have described how work on the latest ...

Manufacture of the fifth UK City-class frigate has begun in Scotland. All eight vessels in the fleet will be built on Clydeside, historically a centre of British shipbuilding, with the work sustaining ...

Construction work on the Royal Navy’s state-of-the-art anti-submarine warfare ship got underway today with a traditional steel-cutting ceremony in Glasgow. HMS Sheffield, which shares a name with, ...

Twenty men were tragically killed but more than 260 survived the attack on May 4, 1982, with many of them owing their lives to the crew of HMS Arrow, which came to their aid. The scene of the disaster ...

May 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1494, on his second expedition to the New World, Columbus explored the Caribbean island of Jamaica. In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was ...

Air defense is one of the most challenging warship missions in the current environment of cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as conventional aircraft threats. Sheffield and Moskva were both on the ...

It wasn't the likely prospect of war that upset the crew of HMS Yarmouth when their ship was ordered back to Gibraltar and eventually on to the Falklands, but the fact that they lost the chance to ...

An award given to HMS Sheffield for its help in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 has been presented to the city of Sheffield. The Wilkinson Sword of Peace was presented by former Boy Seaman ...

It is to be the latest in a historic list of warships to carry the name of our city. And engineers now have described how work on the latest HMS Sheffield is progressing. Did you know with a Digital ...