Some views of HMS DARING during her visit to Liverpool during the Whit Bank Holiday Weekend 2009. This was the first viist to Merseyside of a Type 45 destroyer to Merseyside. The Class leader was launched by BVT Surface Fleet a merger of Vosper Thornycroft and BAe systems in 2006 and completed in 2008, HMS Deering was to have been class leader of 12 new destroyers which was eventually reduced to just 6 by 2008. The bow sections, funnels and masts were constructed at Portsmouth and then conveyed to Govan, Scotland for final assembly. |  |
