The Sinking of HMS Sheffield (D80) Explained 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975. She was the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. The ship was part of the Task Force 317 sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck by an

3.2K views · 373 reactions | Veterans’ Foundation - Remembering the Falklands… May 4, 1982. HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile. Twenty people died and 26 were injured. It was the first Royal Navy warship to have been lost in combat since WWII. Lest we forget  | Veterans' Foundation | Facebook

Falklands 40th Anniversary 🌺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🌺 In the Wake of HMS Sheffield (D80) (Full Documentary) 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 The Falklands War proved a bloody testing ground for many of the world's most advanced conventional weapons, nowhere more so than in the air-sea battles fought out between the Royal Navy and the Argentinean Air Force. For the Royal Navy, the Falklands was the first significant war of the missile age. In the BBC film In the Wake of HMS Sheffield, we discover what has it learned about con