Royal Navy
Daring Class Destroyer
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The Type 45 “Daring” Class Guided Missile Destroyer is a class of ships built for the Royal Navy in early 21st century. It was primarily designed Anti-aircraft and Anti-missile warfare; replacing the Type 42 “Sheffield” Class Destroyers which served during Falkland Wars. According to reports by National Audit Office, a Type 45 Destroyer could simultaneously track, engage and destroy more targets than 5 Type 42 destroyers combined. The number of vessels in class reduced from twelve, to eight and eventually confirmed as only 6 of the type 45 destroyers will be commissioned in the Royal Navy.
The UK developed a new class of guided missile destroyers in early 90s with other NATO nations under the NFR-90 project (known as Horizon Class later), however UK withdrew from the plan on 26 April 1999 and then started its own national project on 23 November 1999, the final result of the project is the Type 45.
Royal Yacht Britannia
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HMY (Her Majesty’s Yacht) Britannia is the royal yacht of the British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She had travelled more than 1 million nautical miles during her 43-years career. She is now a museum and a popular tourist attraction at Edinburgh, Scotland.
She was designed as a royal yacht and a hospital ship so it could serve for the Royal Navy during war time, although this capability was never used. However it is worth mentioning that HMY Britannia evacuated over 1000 refugees from the civil war in Aden in 1986.
She was decommissioned on 11 December 1997 after her last mission on 1 July 1997, conveying the last Governor of Hong Kong and the Prince of Wales after its handover to People’s Republic of China.