| | Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Southampton visits namesake city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | After an absence of four years, Type 42 destroyer HMS Southampton has made the short trip along the Solent to her namesake city, and the place she was built. |
 | | The Mayor of Southampton, Denis Harryman, and the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Mary Fagan, joined the warship as she sailed up Southampton Water to begin a three-day stay at Town Quay. |
 | | The destroyer – which vies with HMS St Albans for the right to use the nickname ‘the Saint’ – was built at the old Woolston yard by Vosper Thornycroft two decades ago; the firm has since moved its shipbuilding operations to Portsmouth. |
| www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0503/0005032402.asp (395 words) |