HMS Endurance scrapping

Title

HMS Endurance scrapping

Genre

Interview

TX Date

25 Mar 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:05:12

Description

Interview with former Navy minister Keith Speed, on the scrapping of the British Antarctic ice patrol ship HMS Endurance, prior to military manoeuvres by Argentine forces in the South Atlantic (19/03/82) and British Falkland Islands. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Keith Speed

Keywords

Government; Armed forces; Great Britain; Conservative Party; International relations; Military affairs; Defence policy; Falklands War (1982); Argentina; Falkland Islands; Ships; Wars (events); HMS Endurance; South Georgia

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