Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Named for the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse. HMS York (D-98) is a Type 42 class destroyer laid down by Swan-Hunter Shipbuilding at Wallsend-on-Tyne on 18 January 1980, launched on 21 June 1982 and commissioned on 9 August 1985. HMS York is an operational unit of the Royal Navy and serves with the Third Destroyer Squadron at Portsmouth. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.