(HMS) DEVONSHIRE/BREEVOORT

[teesships]

DEVONSHIRE (HMS) (destroyer - DO2), 5440 tons displacement,
completed Cammell, Laird & Co., Birkenhead 11-1962
sunk as a target in the English Channel 17.7.84
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BREEVOORT (6515394), Netherlands, 1409gt, completed Westerbroek 9-1965
1965 FLYNDERBORG - 1970 BREEVOORT - 1977 ARISTOTELIS - 1986 STORM ONE
foundered N Egypt 6.2.87 [Port Sudan-Volos, sailed Port Said 1.2.87]
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Middlesbrough Dock - 28 November 1976:

That looks to be quite a jumbled mess on the afterdeck of the DEVONSHIRE - was that usual for HM ships?

Ron

[Whickham]

I think that "jumbled mess" is the Seaslug missile launcher.