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HMS Coventry
The Board of Inquiry into the loss of HMS Coventry was published by the MoD last year -
click here for PDF file.
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
Our Facebook Group. Even I have to admit Facebook has its uses now. If you avoid the myriad
of pointless add-ons people try and make you install!
Listing at Forces Reunited.
Other Task Force Ships
HMS Ardent
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 Courageous.
HMS Endurance (the new ship, no site found for the earlier ship).
HMS Fearless and the campaign to save her from the breakers' yard.
HMS Glamorgan.
HMS Hecla.
HMS Hydra.
HMS Hermes.
HMS Invincible.
HMS Penelope.
HMS Plymouth
HMS Sheffield.
HMS Yarmouth.
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 (new address) "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 (new address) 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.
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, currently holding the Cross of Nails
for safe-keeping until the RN commissions another HMS Coventry.
The Holy Trinity Church (new address) 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.
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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