In late 2009, the French tanker La Somme repelled a daring pirate attack in the Indian Ocean, only for the same group to ...

In late May 1982, Argentine Navy was left with only one AM39 Exocet missile. Their Super Etendards had successfully attacked and sank two British ships but the main prize, the two aircraft ...

Lord West, who won a Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) for his actions on May 21 and 22, 1982, told the PA news agency how he once received a card from a young girl “explaining what her ...

HMS Sheffield was one of four ships that the British would lose to Argentine air attacks. Argentine aircraft struck three Royal Navy vessels with Exocets, sinking each and killing 46 British sailors.

The attack on HMS Sheffield resulted in the first British fatalities of the war. The destroyer was dispatched to the Falkland Islands before being hit by an Exocet missile fired from an ...

HMS Bristol was commissioned on March 31, 1973, and decommissioned on October 28, 2020. Before her role in the Falklands War, she was used to trial new computer and weapons systems.

HMS Bristol was towed out of Portsmouth Harbour on Wednesday, almost five years after it was decommissioned. The warship, which was the last ship serving from the Falklands War, is being taken to ...