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HMS COVENTRY

 Jack Russell

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HMS Coventry Summer 1981 Newsletter

Four Weeks in May

Sea of Fire

Penguin News

Jack Russell's photos

Jack was the first Junior Rate to join the ship at Birkenhead in July 1978.


Coventry returning to Portsmouth after Part 4 Trials and helo deck landing trials with a Lynx from Culdrose.

Jack's model of Coventry, just after launch!

Jack as Bosun's Mate on the wheel, with Lt. MacDonald as Office Of the Watch., 1979

Snapping the snapper - far from home in 1980, Lynx XZ257 on the deck., 1980

Rough seas! Typhoon in the South China Sea., 1980

Coventry intercepts the Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev in the South China Sea, 1980. The Kiev is now a tourist attraction in... China!, 1980

Coventry and the Kiev again., 1980

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