Originally Posted by
Ethel the Aardvark
I remember being told that as the Sheffield was listing and evacuations were starting to be performed an unknown sailor started singing ‘always look on the. Right side of life’ to which the whole able company including the captain promptly joined in. Hopefully not an urban myth.
I had a mate who was on the Sir Galahad and was in charge of a blowpipe. He told me the A4 had dropped its bomb and was long gone before he could say “what the f@ck was that.
Another issue was a certain European freight company falling out of favour with the UK over an issue of transportation of fresh Exocets to Argentina during the crisis. I think they had a lucrative Hong Kong contract removed.
No, not an urban myth, it was a D (fighter controller) on loan from HERMES who started it!