Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The fifth HMS Norfolk was laid down on 15 March 1966 by Swan Hunter and launched by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk in November 1967. She was commissioned in March 1970. Like her predecessor, she was a County-class warship, described as a destroyer, rather than a cruiser, because the Royal Navy and First Sea Lord Earl Moutbatten, had seen guided missile destroyers as easier to gain approval from the Treasury than cruisers, when the class originated in the late 1950s. By the late 1960s the armament being fitted to the Norfolk was dated and limited with no more than the guns of a mid-1950s destroyer and a supposedly improved Seaslug missile, a questionable innovation, untested at the time work on the Norfolk started. By the mid-1960s Defence Minister Dennis Healy and the Labour Government were withdrawing Britain from a global defence role and rejecting the idea of broken back conventional or limited nuclear war in the Atlantic. The Healy Labour defence doctrine was one of tighter nuclear deterrence with the main armament, tactical nuclear and anti-submarine emphasis. Norfolk didn't really fit the strategy and was built to keep shipyards open. And as a low level cruiser for low level defence, diplomacy, third world bush fire wars and recruitment. Eventually such ships could be sold to the third world to aid British interests in South America, Middle East and Asian where Britain was withdrawing its own forces.. }
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- HMS_Norfolk_(D21) abstract "The fifth HMS Norfolk was laid down on 15 March 1966 by Swan Hunter and launched by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk in November 1967. She was commissioned in March 1970. Like her predecessor, she was a County-class warship, described as a destroyer, rather than a cruiser, because the Royal Navy and First Sea Lord Earl Moutbatten, had seen guided missile destroyers as easier to gain approval from the Treasury than cruisers, when the class originated in the late 1950s. By the late 1960s the armament being fitted to the Norfolk was dated and limited with no more than the guns of a mid-1950s destroyer and a supposedly improved Seaslug missile, a questionable innovation, untested at the time work on the Norfolk started. By the mid-1960s Defence Minister Dennis Healy and the Labour Government were withdrawing Britain from a global defence role and rejecting the idea of broken back conventional or limited nuclear war in the Atlantic. The Healy Labour defence doctrine was one of tighter nuclear deterrence with the main armament, tactical nuclear and anti-submarine emphasis. Norfolk didn't really fit the strategy and was built to keep shipyards open. And as a low level cruiser for low level defence, diplomacy, third world bush fire wars and recruitment. Eventually such ships could be sold to the third world to aid British interests in South America, Middle East and Asian where Britain was withdrawing its own forces.".