#type 42

Seen here May 2011, alongside the carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the now decommissioned HMS Gloucester (D96) was a Batch 3 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. During the Gulf War of 1991, off the coast of Kuwait, the vessel made history while escorting the Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri when, under the command of Philip Wilcocks, she successfully engaged an Iraqi Silkworm missile threatening the American battleship. This was the first successful missile vs missile engagement at sea in combat by any Navy.