Airfix 1/600 HMS Devonshire Scaled Plastic Model Kit

HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first of the Royal Navy's new County-class Destroyers, designed around the Seaslug surface-to-air missile system — a fleet defender intended to knock out high-flying enemy aircraft before they could release their stand-off anti-shipping munitions. Launched in June 1960 and commissioned in November 1962, she was the first vessel of her type to enter Royal Navy service and the first operational Royal Navy ship to fire the Seaslug missile. The missile was only used in action once and this was when HMS Antrim fired Seaslugs during the Falklands War, but it has to be said with somewhat disappointing results. Decommissioned in 1978, Devonshire spent six years in Portsmouth harbour before a proposed sale to the Egyptian Navy fell through. She met an ignominious end as a target ship, sunk by HMS Splendid in the North Atlantic on 17 July 1984, only days after serving as a floating target during Sea-Eagle anti-ship missile trials.