And we remember, Sheffield
On this day in 1982, the Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) sank after damage incurred from an Argentine air attack on 4 May 1982 during Falklands War. The ship sank at 53°04′S, 56°56′W on 10 May 1982, the first Royal Navy vessel sunk in action since World War II.
Twenty of her crew died as a result of the attack, delivered by a French-built Exocet missile from a two Super Étendard sortie launched from Tierra del Fuego.
A cara cara bird perches atop the remote memorial to the 21 men of HMS Sheffield
As the crew. and later the crew of HMS Coventry, waited to abandon ship they sang ‘Always Looking on the Bright Side of Life’ from ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’.
Fue el primero de muchos que se hundieron. Por una fuerza armada sin apoyo de USA ni Francia, ni armamento moderno. Casi vuelven nadando.