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HMS Coventry
Navy News has a page on HMS Coventry (F98) and one on
HMS Coventry (D118).
Portsmouth's The News have an online section on the Falklands War
with a page on the loss of HMS Coventry.
Coventry Shipmates
Listing at Forces Reunited.
Listing at Comrades and Colleagues.
Coventry's Navigator in 1982, Tim Harris, now runs BRNC: Commodore Tim Harris.
Coventry's Officer of the Watch in 1982, Jamie Miller, is now the Naval Regional Officer for Wales & Western England - Commodore A J G Miller CBE.
Raymond John Adams, officer on Coventry in 1982, talks about the events of May 25th 1982: MP3 audio file.
The My Lost Oppos forum unfortunately requires registration and a subscription payment to use.
Other Task Force Ships
HMS Ardent (new address)
HMS Arrow (dead link)
HMS Brilliant.
HMS Broadsword has a superb site about our
partners on picket duty. Includes a gallery of the fateful day and
one of the memorial on Pebble Island.
HMS Bristol.
HMS Cardiff (decommissioned, dead link).
HMS Courageous (new address).
HMS Endurance (the new ship, no site found for the earlier ship).
HMS Exeter (new address).
HMS Fearless and the campaign to save her from the breakers' yard.
HMS Glamorgan.
HMS Glasgow (decommissioned, dead link).
HMS Hecla.
HMS Hydra.
HMS Hermes.
HMS Invincible (new address).
HMS Penelope.
HMS Plymouth (new address)
HMS Sheffield (new address) and they now have an MSN group as well
as this site on the loss and sinking of HMS Sheffield, dedicated to
fighting for a Public Enquiry into the loss.
HMS Spartan.
HMS Yarmouth (new address).
RFA Stromness (or USNS Saturn as she is now).
One of the STUFT section of the task force - SS Canberra - has not one but two sites!
Falklands War
The South Atlantic Medal Association "intend to maintain and promote a sense of pride and comradeship among all veterans of the South Atlantic campaign, and to keep them in touch with each other".
They've also got a good web links section!
The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel Project includes
Captain Hart-Dyke as one of its trustees.
The Falklands Veterans Foundation support veterans and their families.
Films and Documentaries
Channel 4's Going Critical series included a programme on HMS Coventry.
Beulah Productions used to sell a video shot onboard Coventry during her 1980 cruise, but it no longer
appears on their site. May be worth enquiring of them though.
Illuminados por el Fuego (Enlightened by Fire) is an award-winning Argentine film concentrating
on the experience of their soldiers during and after the conflict - it's not a happy story.
By contrast, 1982 - Estuvimos Ahi (We Were There) is a short, low budget, Argentine
work of pure fiction which includes a laughably bad sequence in which a Super Etendard both stuffs an Exocet into HMS Invincible
and also carries out a close air support mission against British troops.
Other Sites
Coventry Cathedral (new address), currently holding the Cross of Nails
for safe-keeping until the RN commissions another HMS Coventry.
The Holy Trinity Church in Coventry has a memorial plaque listing
the crew lost in 1982.
A page on Sheffield Class Type 42 Destroyers.
A review of a Type 42 plastic model (new address).
Plenty of info on A-4 Skyhawks available from the Skyhawk Association.
Credits
Thanks are extended to the following people for their assistance with this site:
HMS Broadsword Association
Henrico Angerman
The many ex-crew members who have provided photos, bought caps or polos and generally supported the site.
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