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 Officer Of the Watch., 1979
Snapping the snapper - far from home in 1980, Lynx XZ257 on the deck.
Rough seas! Typhoon in the South China Sea, 1980
Coventry intercepts the Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk in the South China Sea, 1980. The Minsk is now a tourist attraction in... China!
Coventry and the Minsk again, 1980