Links

HMS Coventry

• The Board of Inquiry into the loss of HMS Coventry was published by the MoD last year - click here for PDF file.
• 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!
• Type 42 Association Facebook Group.
• Type 42 Destroyers Facebook Group.
• 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 Fearless and the campaign to save her from the breakers' yard.
• HMS Glamorgan.
• HMS Hecla.
• HMS Hydra.
• HMS Hermes.
• HMS Penelope.
• HMS Plymouth
• HMS Sheffield (new address)
• 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 (new address) support veterans and their families.

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 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.