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	Letters
		If any of you out there can write and tell me how you are and that you have received by letter I would be pleased to hear from you because you can't rely on news reports.
		Good luck HMS BROADSWORD and all the Task Force and get the Falkland s back for Britain.
		My survivors were overwhelmed by the sympathetic assistance and the generosity of your Ship's crew, especially in the difficult circumstances under which you were operating.
	www.btinternet.com /~broadsword82/ourstory/letters.htm (1322 words)

	HMS Broadsword (F88) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Broadsword (F88) was the lead ship and first Batch 1 unit of the Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy.
		Broadswords Lynx helicopter was destroyed by one bomb.
		She was decommissioned on 31 March 1995 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 June 1995 and renamed Greenhalgh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Broadsword_(F88) (144 words)

	Type 22 frigate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Chatham, the last of the Batch 3 Type 22s, at the International Fleet Review, 2005
		The Type 22 Broadsword class frigates are a class of warships built for the Royal Navy.
		The four Broadswords (which included two Falklands War veterans) were sold to Brazil in the mid 1990s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Type_22_frigate (515 words)

	Harpoon HQ - Harpoon Classic, Harpoon II, Harpoon 3, Harpoon 4
		HMS Antrim, Ardent, Argonaut and Broadsword were all attacked in the air strikes on 21 May. HMS Antelope was hit by several UBX's, one of the bombs detonated during the removal of its fuse.
		HMS Coventry and HMS Broadsword were attacked by several waves of Skyhawks while positioned to the north of Falkland Sound as a 42-22 missile trap.
		HMS Broadsword and HMS Coventry are on station north west of Pebble Island acting as a SAM trap for attacking aircraft.
	www.harpoonhq.com /harpoon3/scenarios/plot-falklands.html (8989 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - Fact Card - HMS Broadsword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		HMS Broadsword, was given a personal good luck message from Princess Alexandra when she attended the Type 22's commissioning ceremony at Devonport on May 4.
		The frigate's ceremonial broadsword was used by the captain's wife, Mrs Judy Norman, and the youngest rating, JS Gordon Jardine, to cut the commissioning cake.
		Built by Yarrows, the Broadsword was making naval history even before she left the slipway; she was the first British warship built without guns - apart from two Bofors policing weapons - and the first built to metric specifications.
	www.navynews.co.uk /falklands/ships/broadsword.asp (400 words)

	BROADSWORD - Corrosion Engineering Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		HMS BROADSWORD, FFH-88, was assigned its wartime station, to an inner defence ring to protect the aircraft carriers HMS HERMES and flagship, HMS INVINCIBLE from attack.
		HMS BROADSWORD and her sister ship HMS BRILLIANT, were given the task of protecting the two carriers because they were the only two ships in the British Fleet, which carried the deadly anti-missile missile, Seawolf.
		HMS BROADSWORD was one of many ships to take its fair share of incoming, deadly Argentine Air Force Exocet missiles.
	www.broadswordcorrosion.com /doc/about_comp.html (268 words)

	HMS Hermes
		HMS Hermes Royal Navy aircraft carrier shown with HMS Broadsword during the battle for the Falklands in naval art print Storm Force to the Falklands by Anthony Saunders.
		HMS Hermes (R12) Laid down 21st June 1944 but construction was suspended in 1945 only to be resumed in 1952 to clear the slipway and launched 16th February 1953.
		HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_hermes.htm (1172 words)

	HMS Coventry D118 - 25th May 1982
		As Coventry and Broadsword were closer to the Argentine mainland than the remainder of the task force, a full load of three 1,000lb bombs could be carried by each aircraft.
		Broadsword's Sea Wolf locked on, but in carrying out last-minute evasive manouevres, Coventry crossed in front of the Broadsword's line of fire, and her Sea Wolf was unable to fire for fear of hitting the Coventry instead.
		Broadsword's crew performed just as magnificently, with her ship's boat and Gemini towing life rafts away from the Coventry as she rolled over despite the ever present danger of a major explosion.
	www.hmscoventry.co.uk /25thmay.html (1002 words)

	Type 22 Broadsword frigate
		Two of the Batch 1 frigates (HMS BROADSWORD and HMS BRILLIANT) served with distinction in the Falkland's war and HMS BRILLIANT was the subject of a BBC documentary shortly before she was decommissioned.
		HMS Brilliant was the third of the Type 22 frigates commissioned by the Royal Navy.
		HMS Sheffield remains armed with a potent mixture of weapons and sensors including Seawolf Anti-Air Missiles, Stingray Anti-Submarine Torpedoes and a helicopter able to carry the Sea Skua Anti-ship missile.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/type22.htm (583 words)

	Going critical \|\| HMS Coventry \| Crucial elements
		HMS Broadsword would have been able to shoot the Argentinian fighters out of the sky had it not been for yet another stroke of bad luck.
		Broadsword had been struck, but it was not badly damaged.
		At a critical moment, when the Broadsword was preparing to fire on the approaching jets, the Coventry changed course, obstructing the Broadsword's line of fire.
	www.channel4.com /goingcritical/hms_coventry/crucial_obstruction_t.html (144 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - 22nd May 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		HMS Broadsword joined Coventry on the missile trap station off Pebble Island, having watched Ardent's fires spread during the night.
		HMS Yarmouth guarded the entrance to San Carlos Water along with HMS Argonaut.
		HMS Exeter arrived and took her place on the picket line.
	www.navynews.co.uk /falklands/stories/8202052201.asp (261 words)

	eBay.co.uk - broadsword, sword, broad sword, Militaria items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jethro Tull - The Broadsword And The Beast NEW
		JETHRO TULL - Broadsword and The Beast, 1982 LP....
		Jethro Tull - The Broadsword And The Beast [Remaster...
	search.ebay.co.uk /broadsword_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ19 (241 words)

	Falkland Islands - A history of the 1982 conflict
		HMS Coventry fired a Sea Dart at the pair which missed, then Broadsword's Sea Wolf system was confused by the two aircraft being so close together, so failed to select a target and therefore failed to fire The two Skyhawks dropped four bombs, the first three of which missed.
		Broadsword had been lucky, there was nothing to cause the bomb to explode as it passed through the stern and Lynx.
		HMS Broadsword began rescue operations for the crew in the water, while HMS Hermes and the land bases at San Carlos sent a large number of helicopters which took the crew in the liferafts to safety.
	www.raf.mod.uk /falklands/mov1.html (6750 words)

	HMS Ardent Assocation Online
		HMS Ardent's commanding officer, now Admiral Sir Alan West GCB DSC, is the unit president.
		The home of the Broadsword Association as well as an extensive site about the ship and its role in the Falklands war.
		This site is dedicated to the memory of those members of the crew who were lost on the 25th of May, 1982 when HMS Coventry was sunk by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War.
	www.hmsardent.org.uk /19301.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (252 words)

	HMS BROADSWORD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fraser, Garry served in HMS BROADSWORD between 1979 and 1980
		Allen, Neil served in HMS BROADSWORD between 1981 and 1982
		Watmough, Jon served in HMS BROADSWORD between 1983 and 1985
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NAVY/HMS_BROADSWORD.asp (371 words)

	One of their aircraft is missing
		H.M.S. Coventry destroys Puma, SA330L of CAB 601, while flying over Choiseul sound with Sea Dart SAM at a range of over 10 miles.
		HMS Coventry shoots down an A-4B Skyhawk of FAA Grupo 5 with Sea Dart west of West Falkland.
		HMS Broadsword is hit and HMS Coventry sunk.
	britains-smallwars.com /Falklands/argentine-aircraftlosses.html (1912 words)

	About HMS Boxer
		When HMS Boxer entered service in 1984 she spent the first three years in service carrying out trials of a new Command and Control system called the Computer Assisted Command System or CACS for short.
		HMS Boxer was also fitted with two additional Oerlikon/BMARC 20mm single barrelled GAM-BO1 close range guns.
		In June 2004, after five years rusting in Fareham creek in Portsmouth, HMS Boxer was sunk in the middle of the Atlantic by a combination of missile and torpedo firings by Royal Navy vessels.
	www.hmsboxer.org /about.htm (617 words)

	Type 22 (Broadsword Class) Frigate
		Top priority was given to the design of an air defence escort vessel, and the result was the Type 42 destroyer, the first of which was HMS Sheffield.
		The first of class (HMS Broadsword) was eventually laid down in February 1975, with the others proceeding at yearly intervals.
		However, the Falklands conflict saw Brilliant and Broadsword assigned as close escorts to the carriers Hermes and Invincible.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_type22frigate.html (432 words)

	History of the Falklands War
		HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
		The Pedestal Convoy - HMS Indomitable by Anthony Saunders.
		HMS Argonaut lies at anchor to her starboard with HMS Antrim in the extreme distance.
	www.war-art.com /falklands_war.htm (2280 words)

	ARGENTINE AIR FORCE ESCUADRON III GRUPO 5 DE CAZABOMBARDEO V BRIGADA AEREA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A type 12 frigate, the upgraded HMS Argonaut, was strafed with 30 mm canon and hit by Zuni rockets from an Argentine Navy Escuadrilla Aeronaval 1 Aermachis MB 339a.
		Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword (type 22 frigates are equipped with Sea Wolf SAMs) was strafed with 30mm canon fire by IAI Navy Mirage-5 Daggers.
		HMS Sir Galahad was severly damaged in the engagement.
	www.skyhawk.org /2C/arf5.htm (2723 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - 21st May 1982 - D-Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Providing close escort to the Amphibious Group during the passage west were HMS Antrim, Broadsword, Brilliant, Plymouth, Yarmouth, Argonaut, Ardent and RFA Fort Austin.
		HMS Ardent abandoned after fierce air attack on British invasion force in Falkland Sound.
		HMS Brilliant, HMS Broadsword and HMS Antrim damaged, Antrim left with two unexploded bombs in her engine room.
	newwww.navynews.co.uk /falklands/stories/8202052101.asp (190 words)

	Ships Lost or Damaged in the Falklands - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
		HMS Argonaut - slightly damaged outside San Carlos Water by rockets and cannon fire from Aermacchi MB.339A of CANA 1 Esc, and then seriously damaged by two unexploded bombs (3/4) dropped by A-4B Skyhawks of FAA Grupo 5.
		HMS ARDENT - badly damaged in Grantham Sound by bombs - hits, UXB's (5+) and near misses - dropped by Daggers of Grupo 6, then mortally damaged by bombs from A-4Q Skyhawks of CANA 3 Esc off North West Island.
		HMS Broadsword - damaged north of Pebble Island by bomb from A-4B Skyhawk of Grupo 5 bouncing up through her stern and out again to land in the sea.
	www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?t=3101 (662 words)

	broadsword reproductions - 1st sword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The only "true" usage of the word "broadsword" is when it applies...
		Broadsword Type 22 Frigates of the Royal navy, HMS Broadsword, Battleaxe Brilliant and HMS...
		Broadsword: General Information: The swords carried by our Officer Commanding and Company Sergeant Major are reproductions...
	sword.cikaggif.info /dir2/broadsword-reproductions.html (294 words)

	The Falkland Islands War
		HMS Broadsword Falklands 82 - The Falklands war seen from the crew members of HMS Broadsword.
		Before the Argentine junta ratifies the acceptance, British submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano outside the war zone.
		The HMS Coventry is hit by 3 1000 lb air bombs dropped from Argentine Skyhawks; 19 British lives are lost.
	www.ability.org.uk /falklands-war.html (2165 words)

	HMS Coventry D118 - Links
		HMS Broadsword has a superb site about our partners on picket duty.
		HMS Fearless and the campaign to save her from the breakers' yard.
		HMS Sheffield (new address) and they now have an MSN group as well as this site on the loss and sinking of HMS Sheffield, dedicated to fighting for a Public Enquiry into the loss.
	www.hmscoventry.co.uk /links.html (451 words)

	Type 2016/2020/2032 - Archived 6/1998
		HMS Tireless, which commissioned in October 1985, was the first ship to be equipped with a production model Type 2020.
		HMS Trafalgar had a prototype model installed in 1981, which was intended for replacement with a production model.
		The remaining Type 2016s include a set on HMS Birmingham, which is currently being replaced during a major rebuild of that ship, to rectify material defects and three systems on the last trio of Type 22 Batch 2 frigates.
	www.forecastinternational.com /archive/asw/as5584.htm (2127 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: John Coward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		As the Commanding Officer of HMS Brilliant, Captain Coward was involved in many of the significant incidents during Operation Corporate.
		He took HMS Brilliant to South Georgia to join in the final stages of Operation Paraquat and contributed markedly to the success of the operation, particularly with regard to the determined and professional handling of his ship which led to the attack on and subsequent capture of the Argentinean submarine Santa Fe.
		With HMS Brilliant he encouraged enemy air attack on several occasions by forming a gun line off Port Stanley with a Type 42 destroyer and shot down several enemy aircraft.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Coward_John_583938466.htm (385 words)

	Falkland War - Pakistani Defence Forum
		HMS Broadsword - slightly damaged outside San Carlos Water by cannon fire from Daggers of Grupo 6.
		It is believed that HMS Invincible was hit real bad, but the orders were to keep it afloat at all cost---come hell or high water.
		HMS Sheffield is not anywhere near the coast.
	www.pakistanidefenceforum.com /index.php?showtopic=30082 (2466 words)

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