I had RFs relief in my classroom the next week and a handful of photographs for him to see that had been sent me from elsewhere in the naval network. Needless to say it was a sobering lesson, and he was clearly not joining D91 any time soon.

It’s crazy how similar they sounds to the American accent.

Loads of subtle things here. He must have been trained on pistol drills, for example

Why did RN drop 'Beat to Quarters' as in Master and Commander (one of the best films ever made) ? That sounded Purposeful.

RIP Sharkey

When the guy took out two F-15s fox 2s and two f-5 Aggressor in a 1v 4 and the aggressor guys told the f-15c guys to take it on the chin and learn from the experience. He was 23-1 against f-15s his squad was 3-1 v f-15s. Have some respect.

R.I.P. Commander Ward 😢

Yall bristol fowk should stop doing this, I'm serial!

It all boils down to two men, same human condition, the only thing separating them at the time was the craze of a few demented people high in power. Let us not forget our fallen and keep a strict and steady watch on the devils that send innocent our people to the meat grinder that war is. Rest in peace to ALL the fallen in the Falklands/Malvinas.

Awesome book one of the best 👍🙏

The Combover though! A thing of beauty.

Franz Stingler will always be a true gentleman of great moral integrity. Nigel Ward... in the MALVINAS on Avatir, an unarmed and seriously injured C130 with all its crew, will be his honorless legacy forever.

Thanks for this 👍

Rest in peace, Cdr Ward.

The last war between gentlemen

Really enjoyed this. Only thing that made me uncomfortable was him saying he felt nothing when he shot that Hercules down. Harsh brutality of war I guess.

Cobarde

I was one of the laborers responsible for the hazardous oily clean up before the SINKEX. USS Boone was docked at the Philadelphia shipyard. The Navy couldn't sink it and was returned back to Philadelphia shipyard. I was allowed to go in to see the damages. It was an awesome experience.

Not much dispute that the RN training given to the ratings, along with their stoic characters, saved the day. From a navigational perspective though several of the officers, including the captain in particular, let everyone down and put the whole crew in grave danger. From his commentary it sounds like he was planning on the hoof, rather than coming up with a comprehensive plan to safely manage the ship's stay there. Wolf rock is clearly marked on the chart, south of Mutton Bird island so the captain could have held a brief meeting with his navigational officers before going ashore and clarified some exclusion areas. It sounds from the commentary as if the captain had a very weak knowledge of where the danger areas were around the island, as he relates a couple of calls to the harbourmaster for information which might reasonably have been expected to have been in RN sailing directions. Ultimately he was reprimanded and several members of the crew were commended, so it appears the navy could see what had happened. When you're in charge of a warship you might be expected to lose it to enemy action, but not during navigation when on a visit.

RN damage control school is very hardcore. That's the only reason they didn't lose the ship. It's funny that, by the standards of that day, the computers were vastly out of date. But they were still essential to that ship. Generally this would be career ending in many navies. Commodore Farrington's career lived to fight another day.

Do you have any links or information about the intro music?

Regards to HM Royal Marines and the SBS from Poole.

Grande Llambías

He was at Collingwood when I was there in 85. He used to ride around on an old Raleigh Shopper and still demanded a salute, no matter what the distance!

I was a member of the first (and last) Royal Marines Detachment on HMS Kent, D12, and the LtAndrews, MG was held in high regard by us throughout our draft onboard. We probably got away with things that a member of the RN Ship’s Company wouldn’t of, a drunk Marine waltzing Lt Andrews (duty Officer) down the deck and getting a chuckle rather than a ‘new-one’ ripped, but lasting memory is when in A Turret hearing his famous “45’s, Engage”.

I was a Flunky at Cambridge 87/88 Spent many a conversation with him. Lasting impression on me.very few command respect like him. I heard he has passed over now. Does what it says on the tin 🔥🔥

I remember him 1980 in training at Raleigh scared the shit out of me on that parade ground he owned it when on it

Veteranos que enfrentaron a la muerte cara a cara, ahi donde solo los guerreros pueden entrar, respeto y honor para esos hombres.

Sounds like a car horn

Dos guerreros, de donde sea que hayan nacido fueron paridos como almas valientes, desde argentina saludos...

Out of your rack, bats on, anti-flash hood up, scooting up a ladder. Don't forget your action mug for your action wets!

This is an amazing moment for two former combatants who are now friends, I’ve seen a good few of these videos of Argentine and British military personnel meeting now as friends. Bless them all they show true courage and humanity.

So who was the navigator ...... the man that plots the ships course?

I think that being able to hug the one who was your adversary in battle allows you to close a cycle to which they were subjected for decades and where that combat is repeated over and over again without ever ending... and to end the internal battle.

Different sounds.....same reaction! USN veteran

Those US Perry class FFGs are built so strong !!! I'm sure the all steel Burke class DDGs are even stronger and can take many hits !! 👍

Lovely video

I was a plankowner. My home and family 1982-84. ASW Officer - great crew - STGC Hammer, STG1 Penick, STG2 Hedspeth and all the rest whose names escape me just now. We took the "A" first time up.

I've heard better! ;)

Anyone who wants some balance to the Sharkey Ward criticism - well worth listening to Ian Mortimer (An RAF pilot no-less) who was pretty much a junior pilot to Sharkey in the very early days of the Sea Harrier. He rates sharkey so I think their is a lot of nuance. Sharkey got results - war is brutal - brutal personalities tend to do well.

12:30 is Kris Ward Sharkey's late son who i had the privilege of lying commercially with. He was also a decorated Harrier pilot.

The sound of the General Alarm still gives me goosebumps 41+ years later. People don't believe me when i tell them that when that Alarm went off i could be off my bunk, in my boots, carrying all my action kit and on my way to my Action Station before i actually really woke up. I remember the XO getting a twat on as we were sailing South as our best time to fully close down for action was 21 minutes... when it was for real we did it in 4 & 1/2 minutes, and that was with 1/2 of us being asleep when the General Alarm went off.

The Harrier and its Pilots earned its battle Honours .In the Falklands .

"Trigger" Harris - Top Captain. I've still got my Argentine Steel Helmet that he arranged for the Ship's Company at Port Howard - and I still hate the sound of the General Alarm 41 years later.

Ltd Andrews showed up many times in my naval careers. He was on the parade square at HMS Raleigh when I did my basic training, and when I passed out. Later on, he re-appeared at Daedalus. He was my boss when I was 2i/c of the "Spearhead" organisation. It is no exaggeration to can him a legend. He was a real presence on the parade ground and an interesting man to listen to. He did make Lt Cdr in the end. A few people thought of him as a throwback to an older age. Not so, he was the embodiment of all things good about the R.N.

HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean brought me here.

Must have been some whiplash claims !!

GREAT britain relies on the enemy being more incompetent.

Better to serve as a training target than be sold for scrap.

Ward a man whitout Honour codes !!!!