Three
Royal Navy warships have been named HMS ''Sheffield'' after the city and county borough of
Sheffield,
South Yorkshire.
* (1936) – a
light cruiser which saw service in
World War II from the
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.
The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...
and the
Atlantic to the
Mediterranean. She was one of the Royal Navy pursuit ships that tracked down the German battleship ''Bismarck''. She was sold and scrapped in 1967.
* (1971) – a
Type 42 destroyer badly damaged by the Argentinian air forces on 4 May 1982 during the
Falklands War
The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...
. While being towed towards South Georgia Island, she sank in heavy seas.
* (1986) – a
Type 22 frigate sold to the
Chilean Navy in 2003 and renamed ''Almirante Williams''.
* will be a
Type 26 frigate.
All three of these warships have carried many fixtures and fittings manufactured in Sheffield itself, including a great number of
stainless steel
Stainless steel is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. It contains at least 11% chromium and may contain elements such as carbon, other nonmetals and metals to obtain other desired properties. Stainless steel's corros ...
items, leading to the nickname that has been applied to all of them: the "Shiny Sheff".
Battle honours
*
Norway 1940
*
Spartivento 1940
*
Atlantic 1941–43
*
''Bismarck'' 1941
*
Mediterranean 1941
*
Malta Convoys 1941
*
Arctic 1941–43
*
North Africa 1942
*
Barents Sea 1942
*
Biscay 1943
*
Salerno
Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...
1943
*
North Cape 1943
*
Falkland Islands 1982
References
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Royal Navy ship names
Sheffield