14K views · 271 reactions | HMS Coventry (D118)  HMS Coventry was a Type 42 (Sheffield-class) destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 1978 at a cost of £37,900,000. She was sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks on The 25th of May 1982 during the Falklands War. | The British Falkland Islands & British Military | Facebook

WAR AT SEA FILM SEASON: Damn the Defiant! (1962) ~ HMS Defiant ALEC GUINNESS, DIRK BOGARDE, ANTHONY QUAYLE ~ is a British adventure CinemaScope and Technicolor film from 1962 starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde. It tells the story of a mutiny aboard the fictitious ship of the title at around the time of the Spithead Mutiny. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's novel Mutiny (1958). The film had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Squar

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