The story of HMS Sheffield. | Dundee Model Boat Club

Twenty crew members on HMS Sheffield were killed when she was hit by an Argentine Exocet missile on May 4, 1982 during the Falklands War. She sank six days later. Some of her former ship's company were in Portsmouth this week to remember those who crossed the bar that fateful day | The News, Portsmouth

Tomorrow marks the fateful day in May when the Royal Navy lost the first of their warships in the Falklands War... We take a look back at HMS Sheffield in happier times... HMS Sheffield (1975) - In 1975 This was the Shiny Sheff... sparkling new, just commissioned and on deployment in the Med... This is a government COI documentary contrasting life for the officers and men aboard HMS Sheffield (on deployment in the Med) with life of WRNS and QARNNS ashore at HMS Rooke, Gibraltar. | British & Comm

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