In one of the most infamous naval attacks of the Falklands War, Argentine aircraft launched Exocet missiles at HMS Sheffield after carefully rehearsing how to defeat ships just like it. Warnings were ...

[This article was published in the Western Morning News on March 20, 2007] It wasn't the likely prospect of war that upset the crew of HMS Yarmouth when their ship was ordered back to Gibraltar and ...

"Exocet!" Colin Haley cannot be sure, but he thinks that moments before the missile struck home one of his colleagues in the operations room of HMS Sheffield cried out a last minute warning. Sign Up ...

May 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1494, on his second expedition to the New World, Columbus explored the Caribbean island of Jamaica. In 1886, four police officers were killed when a bomb was ...

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It was over 40 years ago that a French-made fighter aircraft carrying a French-made anti-ship missile resulted in the greatest loss of a Royal Navy warship since the Second World ...

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