HMS Coventry & Atlantic Conveyor 25th May 1982

Commodore Jamie Miller (who I have met on a fair few occasions, and is mad as a box of frogs) recounts his story of what happened in HMS Coventry.

THE ONLY PERSON TO CLIMB BACK ON BOARD; EXCLUSIVE COMMODORE JAMIE MILLER RECALLS THE MOMENT HIS LIFE RAFT WAS FLIPPED OVER AFTER IT WAS BLOWN UNDER THE STRICKEN HMS COVENTRY. - Free Online Library

Free Online Library: THE ONLY PERSON TO CLIMB BACK ON BOARD; EXCLUSIVE COMMODORE JAMIE MILLER RECALLS THE MOMENT HIS LIFE RAFT WAS FLIPPED OVER AFTER IT WAS BLOWN UNDER THE STRICKEN HMS COVENTRY.(Features) by "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)"; News, opinion and commentary General interest
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M/V Atlantic Conveyor

Lost that day was Ernie Vickers from Middlesbrough.

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Falklands - May 1982

NEW: If you can see yourself in the British Tay photograph at the bottom of this page or can put names to faces, please go to Identify Crewmen to help compile the crew list for posterity.
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Lemmy_kilmister said:
Commodore Jamie Miller (who I have met on a fair few occasions, and is mad as a box of frogs) recounts his story of what happened in HMS Coventry.

THE ONLY PERSON TO CLIMB BACK ON BOARD; EXCLUSIVE COMMODORE JAMIE MILLER RECALLS THE MOMENT HIS LIFE RAFT WAS FLIPPED OVER AFTER IT WAS BLOWN UNDER THE STRICKEN HMS COVENTRY. - Free Online Library

Free Online Library: THE ONLY PERSON TO CLIMB BACK ON BOARD; EXCLUSIVE COMMODORE JAMIE MILLER RECALLS THE MOMENT HIS LIFE RAFT WAS FLIPPED OVER AFTER IT WAS BLOWN UNDER THE STRICKEN HMS COVENTRY.(Features) by "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)"; News, opinion and commentary General interest
www.thefreelibrary.com
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Probably one of the most bonkers person I met in the RN
 
I watched a documentary about Coventry and Broadsword’s Seawolf system had the Skyhawks locked on and HMS Coventry sails into her path and breaks the lock!
 
The Atlantic Conveyor was a big loss, as if I remember correctly wasnt it carrying all the helicopters they were going to use to transport troops across the islands and instead had to walk across to Port Stanley.
 
Derby_Red said:
Think it was its radar system it turned off (temporarily) yeah. Sheffield was a sister to Coventry and was Sea Dart equipped.

Sad days.
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Sheffield was transmitting on SATCOM (when they shouldn't have been) which blocked out the Electronic Warfare emitter so they couldn't see the aircraft. Glasgow tried to pass the info on but it couldn't. Glasgow fired chaff to distract the missiles, but the first Sheffield knew was when the Bridge spotted the missiles smoke trails. The first Exocet missed. The Exocet that struck Sheffield hit her on the starboard side at 2 deck, passed through the junior ratings galley and entered the fwd engine space. The entry point was just above the waterline, creating a hole in the hull roughly 1.2 metres by 3 metres. It took out the firefighting pumps, the fire main and the electrical distribution panels so firefighting was made extremely difficult.
 
100% true.
He also took them to the table when he was awarding punishments. A mate of mine went to his table, and a toy soldier was sat on the Dias.
"What's that Sgt? Two days pay and one weeks number nines? I agree! On caps, right turn quick march!"

Quite the character. 😁
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junos_boots said:
The Atlantic Conveyor was a big loss, as if I remember correctly wasnt it carrying all the helicopters they were going to use to transport troops across the islands and instead had to walk across to Port Stanley.
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Lost all the chinooks apart from one... Bravo November.(BN)

funny enough that heli seems to have 9 lives as she was shot up bad during the Afghan campaign... took a load of rounds during a medivac and one passed through the cockpit hitting the pilot in the head (lucky for him just a scratch) one round went through the gearbox and he only just managed to get her back to base.

when they checked the gearbox there was no oil left in it.

she is still in service today but is on the list to be replaced with the new order that has just gone to Boeing

apparently there is already a fight on as to which museum she will go to
 
Lemmy_kilmister said:
Sheffield was transmitting on SATCOM (when they shouldn't have been) which blocked out the Electronic Warfare emitter so they couldn't see the aircraft. Glasgow tried to pass the info on but it couldn't. Glasgow fired chaff to distract the missiles, but the first Sheffield knew was when the Bridge spotted the missiles smoke trails. The first Exocet missed. The Exocet that struck Sheffield hit her on the starboard side at 2 deck, passed through the junior ratings galley and entered the fwd engine space. The entry point was just above the waterline, creating a hole in the hull roughly 1.2 metres by 3 metres. It took out the firefighting pumps, the fire main and the electrical distribution panels so firefighting was made extremely difficult.
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Thanks Lemmy.
 
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