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Mary Rose sailors burial (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the Provost of Portsmouth, Reverend David Stancliffe on burying the remains of 200 sailors from the shipwrecked Tudor warship, the Mary Rose, in a special vault and the form the service will...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Victory Report: Salt and Spice: some history of Portsmouth with the Solent People’s Theatre - 13 Aug [1975-1986]

Report on re-enacted scenes of events in Portsmouth’s history on location in Portsmouth with music by Solent People’s Theatre production called Salt and Spice, with excerpts. Track 1- Introduction:...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Meet a Midshipman scheme (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with unidentified spokesman on Meet a Midshipman scheme for foreign sailors to meet British people and see English countryside. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

USS Stark dead remembered (1987)

Genre

Speech

Speech by US President Ronald Reagan, remembering the victims of an attack on the USS Stark, hit by two Iraqi exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf (17/05/87) at a memorial service. Thirty-seven sailors were...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Home Front constable on duties (archive recording) (1987)

Genre

Special

A Special Constable (not identified) on the Home Front during the Second World War describes his duties such as being on fire watch and assisting shipwrecked sailors. He lives in a seaside town but does not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf rescue of British sailors (1980)

Genre

Interview

Jon Snow of ITN explains his involvement in and the events of Operation Pear - the rescue of British seamen trapped in a cargo ship in the Persian Gulf during the start of the Iran-Iraq war. Interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

USS Iowa memorial service (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech; Tribute; Music

Nick Peters reports on the memorial service for the sailors who died in the explosion on the USS Iowa. The battleship’s commanding officer, Fred Mosally, pays tribute to those who died; President George...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Battleship Iowa’s gun turret explodes (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

Washington correspondent Nick Peters reports on yesterday’s explosion of the US battleship, Iowa’s gun turret, which killed 47 sailors on board and injured many others. President George Bush mourns the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Falklands war ends - SS Canberra return (1982)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Interview; Special

Report on the return of requisitioned Falklands troop ship SS Canberra to Southampton following the end of hostilities in the war between Britain and Argentina. Includes vox pop with sailors and crowd; noise...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Marques sinking (1985)

Genre

Interview

A survivor (poss. Philip Sefton) from the Marques describes the scene when the boat sank rapidly during the tall ships race on 03/06/84 due to a freak squall. Male speaker and interviewer not identified....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio