Sea of Fire - HMS Coventry at War (2/6)

The story of HMS Coventry, lost in the Falklands War. The story is told by her crew, using historic footage and reconstructions. Strongly influenced by the best selling book 'Four Weeks in May', by Captain David Hart-Dyke.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• HMS
• Coventry
• Falklands
• War
• 1982
• 82
• Falkland
• Islands
• Sheffield
• Royal
• Navy
• Destroyer
• Type
• 42
• UK
• Argentina
• Britain
• RN
• Warship
• Documentary
• Sea
• of
• Fire

[mendocino89]

a comerla HMS Coventry jajja viva la Patria!

[ddh207]

I was in the Canadian navy from1980 to 1994, our navy is based on the British Navy. I have worked with the Britts, German, Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese in other words all Nato nations and the British Admirals were always the most serious no sense of humour and very "dry" compared to other nations, mind you very professional though.

Gosh I miss the Navy. During the Faulkland conflict I was on a Nato shore radio station which handled a lot of the ship-shore traffic from the british ships

[dutchman139]

english people are well-mannered, they're in war and do still have respect for the sinking enemy, other than the americans who scold and cheer to their enemies...

[flchange]

@AnteyPL well i really don´t know that much about warfare, I only watched the interview the engineers that launched a "ground based" exocet against HMS Glamorgan 2 days bfore the end of the conflict, something absolutely improvised and of course unexpected. At some point they mention the "cruising speed" of the exocet. Coventry was a good hit, but if our intelligence had been better we would have targetted camberra and the landing ships, instead. Cheers.

[AnteyPL]

@flchange

True, but hadn't Coventry been built to counter saturation attack by Soviet supersonic ASMs that fly Ma2-Ma3 ? And sometimes, almost as low as Exocets ?

[flchange]

@AnteyPL I believ the exocet flies at .9 mach which is about 650 kts at SL. transonic, but still pretty fast.

[flchange]

@milltiaryman001 learn how to spell kid...you should be ashamed of that spelling...

[Vant8ge]

@malvinero1996

The people in Latin america have done 29 times more damage to the biodiversity and literally 13,192 times more deforestation then the the UK has ever done in its history. Face it your all parasites.

[AnteyPL]

Exocet IS NOT SUPERSONIC !!! You people above all should know that.

Had it really been, you wouldn't be here talking about it !

[neowolvesuk]

Well it looks like i'm joining up again to put some more argies in the ground and the water..........go HMS Conqueror !

[milltiaryman001]

@malvinero1996 listen youre a kid okay, youve just been brainwashed by argantine propaganda, when youre forces are ready to fight instead of hiding in port give us a call, next time one of youre ships leaves port give me a call, tell me do you want spearfish or harpoon? on the subject of little girs arent therlittle 10 year old prostitutes in youre country-damed youre nation is fucked up...

[Marlever357]

At 3.45 the chap mentioned his friend Phil Fisher..I once worked with a guy with the same name,he too was at the Falklands and on a ship that was hit,chances are it was the same person,he suffered bad burns.poor fellow died some years back.