Posted by Christian J. on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Ship-in-DESTRUCTION-tp1501486p1501489.html

--- Nick Braybrooke wrote:

> Hi everyone I'm new to the forum but not to UFO.
> I watched them all first time around in 1970.
> The ship shown in DESTRUCTION was an RN
> County Class destroyer. Has it ever been
> disclosed which ship it was?

Hi Nick and welcome aboard!

I've checked the episode on DVD. Of course there is a lot of stock
footage used therefore it could be that footage from several ships
were used. But in one side-shot you can read the writing "D06" on the
ship, so it must be the HAMPSHIRE (according to:
http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/rn/destroyers/county/ ) But there is
a shot were *no* writing is on the port side of the ship at all.

The funny side: the HAMPSHIRE was paid off 1976 and scrapped. But UFO
is set in the 1980s. On the other hand, in the title sequence one
can see Straker reading a newspaper and although the camera pans over
it you can read in a still frame the date "Friday, February 2, 1969"!
Maybe it's the 3rd of February but the rest is clearly readable.
Little blooper :-)

Christian