I served on Newcastle, Southampton and Cardiff. God bless those boys who gave their lives in 82. I pay my respects every year plus whilst on deployment down there in 89.
Im not British but I lived in the UK for 12 years and I have been a soldier myself. I am a big friend of Britain and the Brits are excellent soldiers and they have very good pilots. But Britain would not have been a world super power without such a great Navy. The British are a member of a handful of people who are seamen. Real seamen. Brits, Norwegians, Greeks and a couple of others. When it comes to the sea you either are sea nation or not. There is no middle way...
Loved watching this! I served in a 42 (Edinburgh) 24 years after this was filmed and was surprised how little had changed in that time. Brought back some brilliant memories!
I will be watching this and I'm wondering if my 'ol opp was on board at the time this video was made. Dave Strickland, a Tiff, he was lost when on board when the Coventry went down. Never forgotten Dave and never will.
A great film and a great tribute to a great ship.I was on that deployment on Antrim.She came with us to Shanghai as the first British warships to go to China since the Yangtsee incident.She was detatched early with Broadsword to cover the outbreak of the Iran/Iraq war in the gulf.
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This film's brought back fond memories of my "Standing By" at Birkenhead and my time on board.A tragic loss of crew and ship only a year after I was drafted off.
This is how I remember the RN. Brought back some great memories of my time in the RN in the 80's. It's official - I have turned into my Dad (He spun many a dit about his time in the RN in the 50's). Thanks for the video. "Call the hands, call the hands, call the hands!!" Feels like it was only yesterday.
4:12 - Good job it was Clubs on watch. Probably the only QM capable of getting from the Bridge to the Tiller Flat inside 40 seconds. If it was anyone else, no chance, and they most likely would have stopped off at the Galley too on the way for a quick snack!
Tragic how ships life and some crew ended. Only worked on some of the sister ships at Rosyth after the Falklands but the crews spoke fondly of Coventry and Sheffield. The 42's had flaws, but which ones don't ? RIP the crews killed in the Falklands.
The type 42s did have flaws...RADAR and close in Air defence in particular. With Type 1022 radar and 2 CIWS phalanx from batch 2 and 3 the crews got a good ship to serve aboard :) The crews of Sheffield and Coventry did all they could :) BTW the type 42 started life with a 20 plus year old radar system that was designed in the 1950s...
The major flaw was making ships made of virtual tin simply to save the government money. When on fire, the fire spread rapidly, and the type 42's went up like dry straw under a hot sun. As in the case of HMS Sheffield. I'm sure someone will correct me on that ?
Watching the DC exercise and the Thursday war detailing the air threat is eeirie, knowing what happened to her 2 years later. RIP shipmates, we have the watch
@@mikewalrus4763 God you are right too. Such a world we live in. Its OK for us to lob guide missiles at schools full of children, but we cant perform a traditional toast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23013395
What a fine ship and a great crew. I wonder how many of these lads were still onboard 2yrs later? Can anyone make out the bow number on the Type 22 at 26:42?
@@dulls8475 She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England. I remember seeing in Pompy years ago and would like the chance to see her now restored as a 38 Gun Frigate.
I served 79 to 92 in The Grey Funnel Line and Submarine Servise and was only 16yrs old and not many of us were fat and no women onboard not like todays saliors. I remember all this type of daily routines at sea and loved it, but if you wanted a real work out the stearing gear failure to manual was a barsteward of a job !! I WOULD DO IT ALL AGIN IN A HEART BEAT. RIP all those still on Patrol !! "I ROAM THE WILD ROVER NO NEVER NO MORE !!
