IN PICTURES: Portsmouth-based HMS Cardiff - from the Falklands to the Gulf | Nostalgia
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A selection of pictures from our files of the old, Portsmouth-based, Type 42 destroyer HMS Cardiff.
Her motto was Keen In Emergency and she lived up to it, serving in the 1982 Falklands crisis and the 1981 Gulf War.
In the Falklands war Cardiff shot down the last Argentine aircraft of the conflict and accepted the surrender of a 7