The Northern Echo

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

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Yahoo UK & Ireland

Lord West recalls sinking of HMS Ardent 40 years after 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 on ...
Daily Post Wales

North Wales hero killed on HMS Ardent during Falklands War remembered 40 years on

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 ...
The Sun

My dad survived the bombing of the HMS Ardent, but 22 sailors died – and I met one of their children 40 years later

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 Claire ...
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Falklands fury: How Argentine air strikes threatened the British Navy

Between May and June 1982, relentless Argentine attacks with Daggers, Skyhawks, and Super Etendards struck the Royal Navy, sinking HMS Sheffield, Ardent, Antelope, Coventry, and Atlantic Conveyor.
The Northern Echo

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

IT was about midnight when HMS Ardent made her lonely run into Falkland Sound. In the hours that followed, her naval gunfire support kept enemy troops and aircraft pinned down at Goose Green and ...