The Bristol belonged to Task Group 317.8 during the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. The three other vessels on sale are the frigates HMS Monmouth and HMS Montrose, and the minehunter HMS Walney.

The Falklands War is also notable for a near miss: The war almost had the first aircraft-carrier clash since World War II. A war long coming Sea Harrier jump jets aboard the HMS Hermes in the ...

Summary: The HMS Hermes, a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, served the Royal Navy from its completion in 1959 until it was decommissioned and sold to India, where it served as INS Viraat until 2017 ...

After a damaging boiler-room fire, the Karel was sold in 1969 to the Argentine Navy which extensively modernized and rebuilt the 25-year-old vessel. Initially, the carrier carried Korean-war era ...

Combat Fleets ’82: Falklands Carriers. Eric Wertheim. June 27, 2012 1:00 AM - Updated: February 5, 2013 3:40 PM. In the event of the loss of a British carrier in the 1982 Falklands War, ...

Bristol led a group of two destroyers, five frigates and an RFA supply ship providing reinforcements in the Falklands war and later joined the carrier battle task group as an air defence destroyer.

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 ...

A woman from Derby is tackling the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over the release of a commemorative plate of the Falklands War. Lesley Heldreich's late father, Ernest Burrell, designed the plate in 1982, ...

Moskva, the first major surface combatant vessel sunk since the Falklands' war. Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 07:33 UTC. ... Moscow did not report any attack on the 500-crew missile carrier, ...

The Falklands War was one of the 20th century's most complex conflicts, but it has largely slipped from memory. Forty years on, however, it still informs the doctrine and planning of militaries ...

Falklands War: HMS Sheffield - a survivor's story. 3 April 2022. ... Sheffield, a type-42 destroyer, was tasked with protecting aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and was "at the front of any action", ...