Veterans have called for a Falklands warship to be saved from the scrapheap. The crew of HMS Exeter saluted the destroyer as she returned home to Portsmouth last month to enter what the navy calls' ...
HMS Exeter will be formally decommissioned in May after spending the winter in Portsmouth with a skeleton crew and command. The navy says she still might be used, which is why a fly-past from two jets ...
A special service has been remembering the crew of HMS Exeter which sank in the Far East during the Second World War. Around fifty men were killed as the ship went down. But many more died at the ...
Two Royal Navy destroyers have been sent to sea virtually defenceless against air attack after their guided missiles were removed to save money. The Sea Dart missiles, which have a range of 40 miles, ...
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HMS Exeter, the last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falklands War, will retire from service on Wednesday. 27 May 2009 • 7:32am A decommissioning ceremony to mark the ...
Government demands probe after wrecks of HMS Exeter, HMS Electra and HMS Encounter found to have vanished THE wrecks of three Royal Navy battleships that were sunk in a ferocious WWII battle have ...
The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role in the Battle of the River Plate when it hunted down the pride of the German navy, the Admiral Graf Spee, was located by divers searching the ...
Almost 81 years ago to the day, a German naval officer by the name of captain Hans Langsdorff put on his uniform, wrapped himself in a German flag, and shot himself in the head. Just three days ...
War grave HMS Exeter is being plundered for scrap metal and the bodies of sailors who drowned aboard her are being dumped in mass graves. Reports in Indonesian media say dredgers have been operating ...
Geoffrey Stott, from Salford, was only a teenager when he joined the crew of the famous Royal Navy cruiser HMS Exeter early in the second world war. Geoffrey led a wreath-laying service in memory of ...
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