Sheffield Navy Days poster fury

A poster featuring HMS Sheffield, advertising Navy Days in Portsmouth, has caused a furore in thousands of shops and pubs throughout the country.

By a quirk of fate, the ship was chosen to illustrate the Royal Navy’s Type 42 class guided missile destroyers.

Sheffield is clearly identified in the poster, with the markings D 80 on her hull.

About

30,000 posters - a third of the total have been distributed to shops, hotels, pubs and tour and coach operators up and down the country.

Since the missile attack on Sheffield, however, the posters have been taken down from numerous shop windows after complaints from sharp-eyed customers.