1980s news clips - HMS Sheffield hit
- Title
- 1980s news clips - HMS Sheffield hit
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 4 May 1982
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:00:17
- Description
- Statement by a male Ministry of Defence spokesman (not identified) announcing the sinking of HMS Sheffield, by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.
- Contributors
- None Identified
- Keywords
- Armed forces; UK; Great Britain; Military affairs; Falklands War (1982); Argentina; Falkland Islands; Ships; Wars (events); HMS Sheffield
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