Visit royal navy's newest ship in its official site at
http://www.type45.com

Type 45 official web site includes timeline of lunching of Type 45 first ship, the
. It will be entering service on 2009.

Visit BAE systems type45 site at http://www.baesystems.com/type45/index.htm for additional information and downloadable illustrations and images for future reference. Also includes, a downloadable Type 45 Destroyer brochure in PDF format.

Hopefully the yards on the Clyde have a lot of life in them yet.

I read about this on another forum as well. I really like the way the British name ships. This class combines two traditions. The tradition of naming them all begining with the same letter, and the tradition of giving them great names from former ships. Daring, Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Defender, Duncan, are all good names from former ships. I still don't like the way modern ships look, but these at least have some great history behind their names.

They do make the IJN Pagoda style battleship bridges look good.