EDINBURGH American Finale – the last Type 42 Destroyer, the EDINBURGH showed a fair turn of speed on the eve of her final foreign port of call.   The last Type 42 performed a ‘maritime doughnut’ to test manoeuvrability at full speed as the ship prepared to sail into the Big Apple.   The EDINBURGH is near the end of a six month Atlantic deployment and is visiting New York.  [The ‘doughnut’ was used to test both engines at full speed – over 30kts – turning left and right].    Due back in Portsmouth at the end of the month (March 2013), the “Fortress of the Sea” is scheduled to conduct a farewell tour of the UK, including a visit to Edinburgh of course and will participate in 70th anniversary commemorations of victory in the Battle of the Atlantic at Liverpool, before a final ceremonial entry into Portsmouth and a decommissioning ceremony in June 2013.