Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian missile during the Falklands war, killing twenty crew members. Now, a memorial has been built to honour those who lost their lives and remember those who survived ⬇️ | BBC Breakfast

Falklands 40th Anniversary 🌺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌺 HMS Sheffield (D80) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Twenty men died and a further 24 were injured in the sinking of the HMS Sheffield, the first British warship to be lost in 37 years. It was the first of four Royal Navy ships sunk during the Falklands War. | The British Falkland Islands & British Military

119K views · 4.7K reactions | Remembering the Falklands… May 4, 1982. HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile. Twenty people died and 26 were injured. It was the first Royal Navy warship to have been lost in combat since WWII. Lest we forget  | Veterans' Foundation | Facebook

The Sinking of HMS Sheffield Explained | The British Falkland Islands & British Military

Falklands 40th Anniversary 🌺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌺 In the Wake of HMS Sheffield (D80) (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The Falklands War proved a bloody testing ground for many of the world's most advanced conventional weapons, nowhere more so than in the air-sea battles fought out between the Royal Navy and the Argentinean Air Force. For the Royal Navy, the Falklands was the first significant war of the missile age. In the BBC film In the Wake of HMS Sheffield, we discover what has it learned about con

4th of May 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield (D80) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The British ship HMS Sheffield has been hit by an Argentine missile fired from a Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard. The sinking has shocked the British nation and foiled any possible diplomatic solution to the current dispute over the Falkland Islands between Britain and Argentina. The ship caught fire when a French-made Exocet missile penetrated deep into HMS Sheffield's control room. The blaze caused poisonous smoke and most of