All Of One Company (1980)

Documentary account of day-to-day life aboard HMS Coventry as she sails from Portsmouth to Hong Kong via Singapore.

[@scottkerrison2913]

RIP all the Coventry shipmates still on patrol in the south Atlantic never forgotten heroes all

[@Bruce-1956]

#wewillrememberthem

[@jonathanlegg4308]

I served on Newcastle, Southampton and Cardiff. God bless those boys who gave their lives in 82. I pay my respects every year plus whilst on deployment down there in 89.

[@tacman1974]

Im not British but I lived in the UK for 12 years and I have been a soldier myself. I am a big friend of Britain and the Brits are excellent soldiers and they have very good pilots. But Britain would not have been a world super power without such a great Navy. The British are a member of a handful of people who are seamen. Real seamen. Brits, Norwegians, Greeks and a couple of others. When it comes to the sea you either are sea nation or not. There is no middle way...

[@ronnieevans339]

Capt Coward...my skipper on Sirius 72/73. RIP all Coventry from 82.

[@daveaneil]

Loved watching this! I served in a 42 (Edinburgh) 24 years after this was filmed and was surprised how little had changed in that time. Brought back some brilliant memories!

[@murraymusic2633]

Sad to think this fine ship and many of those men would be aboard that fateful day in May 1982 and some never came home.... RIP to them all.

[@buoyfun]

RIP HMS Coventry. Always remembered, never forgotten 😢

[@judebrown2672]

I joined in 89 but my mate Mark Tolan was a wtr on the Coventry. He always spoke highly of the ship and crew. Great to watch. Thanks.

[@KiwiKugai]

An excellent doco on a fine ship. Sad to think that two years after this was made she was on the bottom of the South Atlantic.

[@landrypreston284]

i dont mean to be offtopic but does anybody know a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my login password. I would love any help you can give me

[@alonzojonathan2553]

@Landry Preston instablaster :)

[@landrypreston284]

@Alonzo Jonathan I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im trying it out now. Takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@landrypreston284]

@Alonzo Jonathan It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thanks so much you really help me out :D

[@alonzojonathan2553]

@Landry Preston You are welcome :)

[@buttyboy1001]

I will be watching this and I'm wondering if my 'ol opp was on board at the time this video was made. Dave Strickland, a Tiff, he was lost when on board when the Coventry went down. Never forgotten Dave and never will.

[@CHAFFINCHMLA]

This film's brought back fond memories of my "Standing By" at Birkenhead and my time on board.A tragic loss of crew and ship only a year after I was drafted off.

[@adriankelly9886]

A great film and a great tribute to a great ship.I was on that deployment on Antrim.She came with us to Shanghai as the first British warships to go to China since the Yangtsee incident.She was detatched early with Broadsword to cover the outbreak of the Iran/Iraq war in the gulf.

[@colinm5120]

This is how I remember the RN. Brought back some great memories of my time in the RN in the 80's. It's official - I have turned into my Dad (He spun many a dit about his time in the RN in the 50's). Thanks for the video. "Call the hands, call the hands, call the hands!!" Feels like it was only yesterday.

[@pp2021]

Colin M, get the same feeling from my time in the Army, same period

[@bobsnedker1176]

Bit modern for me, 40 and 50’s. Not quite cannons then

[@zetlandersoaghar7551]

call the hands polite version. normally 'wakey wakey wakey hands off cocks and onto socks.

[@judebrown2672]

Brilliant stuff. Would go to sea tomorrow if I could. Great life and agree I've turned into me pa to.....lol.

[@ShakemeisterS64]

Call the hands. The second most annoying pipe in the world after bagpipes.

[@wafupaul3731]

4:12 - Good job it was Clubs on watch. Probably the only QM capable of getting from the Bridge to the Tiller Flat inside 40 seconds. If it was anyone else, no chance, and they most likely would have stopped off at the Galley too on the way for a quick snack!

[@IbroxGranite]

Tragic how ships life and some crew ended. Only worked on some of the sister ships at Rosyth after the Falklands but the crews spoke fondly of Coventry and Sheffield. The 42's had flaws, but which ones don't ? RIP the crews killed in the Falklands.

[@internetperiodista]

3 argies dislike this video

[@kuchilos]

Oh no, its discontent because the video did not appear in the spot where they hit the British bombs.

[@jyralnadreth4442]

The type 42s did have flaws...RADAR and close in Air defence in particular. With Type 1022 radar and 2 CIWS phalanx from batch 2 and 3 the crews got a good ship to serve aboard :) The crews of Sheffield and Coventry did all they could :) BTW the type 42 started life with a 20 plus year old radar system that was designed in the 1950s...

[@buttyboy1001]

The major flaw was making ships made of virtual tin simply to save the government money. When on fire, the fire spread rapidly, and the type 42's went up like dry straw under a hot sun. As in the case of HMS Sheffield. I'm sure someone will correct me on that ?

[@romeo9017]

Amen...

[@cra83]

Watching the DC exercise and the Thursday war detailing the air threat is eeirie, knowing what happened to her 2 years later. RIP shipmates, we have the watch

[@andrewwilde3389]

Thank you.

[@bilko529]

Im ex raf but i take my hat of to the RN . Work hard play hard lads. A credit to this nation.

[@philipemery5503]

Once served in the Navy a time never forgotten. Then ships were manned by men only. How times have changed but the old naval traditions still remain. May not be a big navy now but the training is still the best

[@estebanfloresgarcia3315]

when i see those man . human .people think about your destiny e few years in may 21 is incredible .. they were young man .

[@julioalejandroaldoferrarij6508]

STILL, ARE, IN, THIS, DAY, 21, OF, FEBRUARY. 2020

[@udayanpaul8042]

Can anyone please share your knowledge on the Asian riverine where this ship is steaming through, which country is it??

[@garywatson]

The toast was to "wives and sweethearts" and some joker says "may they never meet!".

[@mikewalrus4763]

Standard RN Wardroom Saturday night toast! Nothing wrong with that - seems they've changed it now, too many wimmin onboard

[@drawingboard82]

@@mikewalrus4763 I think they still do it.

[@mikewalrus4763]

@@drawingboard82 I believe it has been reworded to be Polically Correc' What a world, where being PC comes before history

[@drawingboard82]

@@mikewalrus4763 God you are right too. Such a world we live in. Its OK for us to lob guide missiles at schools full of children, but we cant perform a traditional toast. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23013395

[@Cous1nJack]

@@drawingboard82 it’s been reworded but not pronounced that way

[@bidds100]

nice to see my old mate eddie (chalkie) Campbell.

[@chrissmith6338]

Great tribute....but surely wrong procedure for steering gear breakdown?

[@DavidHoughton17]

RIP Andrew Thomas who i believe was on this tour. Yeah I knew Andrew from my office in London.

[@kevinrby1982]

Does anyone know the name of the song being plaid in the first 2-3 minutes of the video?

[@albertplumb7206]

This was a popular Sea Shanty in the 1960s/70s. Santiano. AKA The Plains of Mexico

[@romeo9017]

Respect...

[@HydroSnips]

What a fine ship and a great crew. I wonder how many of these lads were still onboard 2yrs later? Can anyone make out the bow number on the Type 22 at 26:42?

[@easyprobate8748]

Looks like a Type 21 HMS ALACRITY?

[@guypenrose5477]

@@easyprobate8748 certainly is Alacrity.

[@chrissmith6338]

How it was.....

[@mrarsenal5919]

always loved old ships we have HMS Belfast on the Thames

[@morg2204]

How come many frigates and destroyers had four ring Captains during the 70s and 80s as opposed to now, exclusively three ring Commanders?

[@tinysaxon3826]

Because we were a bigger and strong Navy with what I believe were stricter discipline and higher standards!!

[@schaeferschaefer2624]

Make Britain great again.

[@vqey2vqey266]

Does any one know what the wooden ship at the beginning is ?

[@luckylucking7175]

+Vqey2 Vqey2 It's the T.S Foudroyant, it Was HMS Trincomalee until 1903

[@dulls8475]

What happened to her? I remember seeing it in the 70s.

[@davidlockwood9192]

@@dulls8475 She is now restored as a museum ship in Hartlepool, England. I remember seeing in Pompy years ago and would like the chance to see her now restored as a 38 Gun Frigate.

[@philhunter9158]

A wooden ship.

[@pauldg837]

Great to see that Del Boy sold them some video camcorders. 19.47

[@mattchristian6886]

BZ, Rip to those still on patrol

[@oshvision]

Uckers at 10:06

[@BR-bj3ot]

How lovely and refreshing it is to see the sailors worshiping God on board. Not much of that anymore. Therein lies the problem

[@tinysaxon3826]

I served 79 to 92 in The Grey Funnel Line and Submarine Servise and was only 16yrs old and not many of us were fat and no women onboard not like todays saliors. I remember all this type of daily routines at sea and loved it, but if you wanted a real work out the stearing gear failure to manual was a barsteward of a job !! I WOULD DO IT ALL AGIN IN A HEART BEAT. RIP all those still on Patrol !! "I ROAM THE WILD ROVER NO NEVER NO MORE !!

[@potusuk]

chuffin heck, Stu Pennock you demon lol gtsy

[@billparry7058]

State 1 on a Saturday afternoon is great for morale 😳🤣

[@gabrielcortes5638]

To my dear enemy! Salud!

[@julioalejandroaldoferrarij6508]

SALUDOS.DESDE.VIÑA,DEL,MAR. CHILE

[@adriandariolopez247]

Traidor

[@wayneronnie7402]

Much prefer the Submarine service. You don't have to iron and shave

[@Richardkim62]

or wash

[@cra83]

Scranbag

[@marcbiff2192]

Or do anything really apart from sit on the bottom of the ocean.

[@dazzthorpe]

They all need an haircut!

[@flagwanker6346]

In those days we all had longer hair than the mob of today

[@danielw5850]

@@flagwanker6346 Don't forget the standard-issue "Porn Star Tache" (Lip Toupee)!

[@Cous1nJack]

13:20 not any more

[@user-jy2qp8gp2l]

Fajny film

[@tinysaxon3826]

You