Editing County-class destroyer (section)

===Disposal===
All eight of the class had short Royal Navy careers, serving on average less than 16 years. Only ''London'' of the first batch would serve further (transferred to Pakistan) while the other three Batch 1 ships were decommissioned by 1980 with ''Hampshire'' being immediately scrapped in 1977 after cannibalization for spares, and ''Devonshire'' sunk in weapons testing in 1984. ''Kent'' would serve as a floating (though immobile) accommodation and training ship in [[Portsmouth]] harbour until 1996.  The four ships of Batch 2 however would be operated for 16 to 23 more years after sale to the [[Chilean Navy]], in which they all received extensive upgrades and modernisation.