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Navy’s last Daring class destroyer to be scrapped (1981)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the scrapping of the Royal Navy’s last destroyer in the Daring class - HMS Diamond. Includes an interview with Ken Fincken, whose firm in London won the contract to scrap the vessel.

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Rosie’s Run Ashore: interviews with officers of ships open to the public on Portsmouth Navy days, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday (1978)

ROSIE’S RUN ASHORE [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] Transmission on Radio Victory on Wednesday 23 August 1978 at 21.45hrs which comprises of interviews with officers of ships open to the public on Portsmouth...

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Falklands war-HMS Sheffield sunk (1982)

Genre

Speech

Announcement by MOD spokesman Ian McDonald on the sinking of British destroyer HMS Sheffield on 04/05/82 during the Falklands War.

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USA fires at Turkish ship (1992)

Genre

Interview

Commander Charles Connor of the US Navy European HQ talks about a rescue operation involving a Turkish destroyer. The ship was accidentally fired at by a US warship during a NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea....

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HMS Gloucester home to UK after Gulf War (1991)

Genre

News report; Speech; Interview

Chris Carnegy reports on the return to the UK of HMS Gloucester - the Royal Navy destroyer that survived Iraqi guided missile attacks in the Gulf War. Wives, families and friends turned out at Portsmouth to...

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D-Day Remembered: Documentary with reminiscences of wartime (1984)

D-DAY REMEMBERED [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A documentary, broadcast on Radio Victory, 6 June 1984, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War Two, using the...

ILR South Radio Online Audio