HMS Forth, naval guardians of the Falklands have spoken of their pride of patrolling the Islands at keeping the eternal flame of 1982 burning. As such they joined the Falklands' fortieth ...

Jon Major, a cook on HMS Ardent, recalls the moment the ship came under attack in the Falklands War.

Four decades since the Royal Navy ship he captained was sunk during the Falklands War, Admiral Lord West of Spithead still retains a close bond with the families of those who served and were lost ...

Last Saturday marked 40 years since the sinking of the HMS Ardent during the Falklands War. The ship, which at the time was supporting Operation Sutton, was engaged with an Argentinian airstrip at ...

I WAS just one when my father sailed to the Falklands as the captain of the Royal Navy Type-21 Frigate HMS Ardent. My mum waved him off from Plymouth. The much-missed Gary Nelson with daughter ...

Officers and men described how HMS Coventry fought gallantly then sank just 15 minutes after being hit; how the captain of HMS Ardent was in tears as he gave the order to abandon ship; and how HMS ...

Britain's Falklands operation critically depended on HMS Hermes, making its destruction a key Argentine strategy. On May 25th, Argentine Super Etendard jets launched their last Exocet missiles ...

Through Fire and Water, HMS Ardent: The Forgotten Frigate of the Falklands by Mark Higgitt (Mainstream Publishing, £12.99) ...

Falklands War veterans are commemorating the 40th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Ardent during the conflict on May 21, 1982. Following a private event this weekend, veterans will gather at HMS ...

This is the news from the Falklands on May 22, on the day HMS Ardent was sunk.

Lord West recalls sinking of HMS Ardent 40 years after the Falklands War The former First Sea Lord described how he wrote letters to the next of kin, ‘mothers and wives of the chaps who died’.