Falklands40: The Loss of HMS Ardent
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's It Like to Be a Captain of a Ship?
i was the only person of my ship's company wo had ever actually been in action before. The general feeling was that this will all be somehow, they'll come to some agreement and it won't happen. I didn't sail with the first trange. Bcause my gun was badly damaged. And i realized when i was up there that margaret thatcher had released two and a half billion pounds from the reserve to pay for things. In fact, we'd been alongside the tyt forty two they brought from us helping train them at one stage. They felt the malvinus were their. So i actually did think there might well be a fight. Amazing what the brits
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