The Sinking of HMS Sheffield (D80) Explained 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975. She was the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. The ship was part of the Task Force 317 sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck by an