Filmed on the Far East deployment in 1980, All Of One Company is a fine documentary on what was then one of the RN’s top of the line new destroyers, giving a good idea of what life onboard was like. This copy has a counter and some print damage but is slightly sharper and clearer than the other copy on Youtube.

Making much use of the footage filmed for All of One Company, the Central Office of Information also produced a recruitment film called The Right Choice, following a midshipman on his first trip at sea onboard HMS Coventry from Portsmouth to Hong Kong. Includes some brief appearances from HMS Antrim and Alacrity and RAS with RFA Resource. HMS Sheffield is used for a couple of points – the arrival at Gibraltar and the low level aircraft attack exercise (the green focsle and boxy main mast give it away).

Sea of Fire is a 2007 documentary on the loss of the ship, including interviews with many key personnel such as the skipper.

The National Geographic series ‘Seconds from Disaster’ also covered her final day, and includes similar interviews:

The news coverage of the crew’s return to the UK. This was a day off school for your webmaster to welcome home a father I’d thought dead for 2 days, and I can tell you that John Craven is TALL! Certainly reduced me to near silence!

Finally, some video from the Ship’s Flight of a sea keeping test – supposedly 1978, but judging by the number of forward life rafts and the Union Flag on the bridge roof, this was 1980: