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	HMS Glamorgan (D19)
		With a displacement of 5,440 tonnes, Glamorgan was named after the Welsh county of Glamorgan.
		Glamorgan was involved in the Falklands War sailing south with the British task force.
		However on June 12 the ship was struck by an Exocet missile fired by a shore battery and was badly damaged.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/h/hm/hms_glamorgan__d19_.html (338 words)

	Glamorgan
		Glamorgan or Morgannwg is a maritime traditional county of Wales, UK, and was previously a medieval kingdom or Principality.
		The county is bounded to the north by Brecknockshire, east by Monmouthshire, south by the Bristol Channel, and west by Carmarthenshire and Carmarthen Bay.
		Being by far the most populous of the counties, the Administrative county of Glamorgan was divided into three at the time of the local government reorganisation of the 1970s, and has now been further subdivided into several unitary authorities.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/gl/Glamorgan.htm (388 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - Day by Day - May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Brilliant had joined the Carrier Battle Group during the night, HMS Antelope replaced her at San Carlos, bringing with her the first re-supply convoy made up of the Stromness, Norland and Europic Ferry.
		HMS Glamorgan, Yarmouth, Alacrity and Arrow formed an anti-aircraft and anti-submarine screen protecting the main body of the two carriers and the RFAs Olmeda and Resource, with the Type 22s goalkeeping for the carriers.
		HMS Glamorgan and Alacrity were both near-missed by 1,000lb parachute-retarded bombs and strafing caused some superficial damage to Glamorgan and Arrow, wounding Arrow's Seacat aimer.
	www.navynews.co.uk /falklands/day_may.asp (2891 words)

	HMS Glamorgan (D19) - Glasglidius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the spring and early summer of 1982 Glamorgan was involved in the Falklands War and was badly damaged by an Exocet missile in the last days of the war.
		At the start of the Falklands campaign (2 April 1982) Glamorgan was already at sea off Gibraltar about to take part in exercises; she was immediately diverted to join the main Royal Navy task force, and served as flagship for Admiral Sandy Woodward during the voyage south.
		Glamorgan was first in action on the evening and night of 1 May when she joined forces with HMS Arrow and HMS Alacrity to bombard Argentine positions around Port Stanley.
	www.glasglow.com /e/?title=HMS_Glamorgan (664 words)

	Harpoon HQ - Harpoon Classic, Harpoon II, Harpoon 3, Harpoon 4
		HMS Plymouth was involved in the operation to recapture South Georgia, and later covered the landings at San Carlos.
		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 Glamorgan and HMS Avenger sail to the south of the Falklands to be able to support the advancing British troops.
	www.harpoonhq.com /harpoon3/scenarios/plot-falklands.html (8989 words)

	HMS GLAMORGAN - Find Friends from HMS GLAMORGAN at Forces Reunited
		Roger Dann was at HMS Glamorgan between 1964 and 1977
		William Saywell was at HMS Glamorgan between 1975 and 1993
		Albert Thomas was at HMS Glamorgan between 1976 and 1986
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Glamorgan.html (1741 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.
		She was intended to be called HMS Elephant, but due to the cancellation of the Centaur class which included the new Hermes, She was renamed HMS Hermes to keep this famous Carrier name alive.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_hermes.htm (1444 words)

	HMS FIFE, and 5 years in the Royal Navy
		This was another County Class Destsroyer, and like HMS Fife (and ex crew member has put a web site together in order to keep her memory alive.
		HMS Ganges was the shore based training center near Ipswich.
		The site is designed to allow persons from HM Forces, UN and Nato forces the possibility of contacting old comrades and friends from all three services and affiliated agencies by posting their details, also reunion functions and get togethers can also be advertised for FREE.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife/links.htm (278 words)

	HMS Glamorgan (D19) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Glamorgan (D19) was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
		Latorre was decommissioned from Chilean Navy service in late 1998 and remains laid up in reserve.
		See HMS Glamorgan for other ships of this name.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Glamorgan_%28D19%29 (322 words)

	HMS_Glamorgan_(D19) Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
		Her most useful armament proved to be her remaining twin 4.5 inch guns, which were used primarily to bombard enemy positions on shore.
		Glamorgan was some 18 miles off shore at the time and steaming at about 20 knots.
		HMS Glamorgan for other ships of this name.
	www.prescriptiondrug-info.com /drug_information_online.asp?title=HMS_Glamorgan_(D19) (650 words)

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		HMS Shefield was hit head on and caused damage and fire across the whole superstructure, which made it unable to put the fire off and has to be abandoned.
		Her sister ships, HMS Coventry was hit by 3 bombs and sunk, while HMS Glasgow was hit by 1 bombs and made her way back to England.
		HMS Glamorgan, a even smaller ship, was also hit by an Exocet but made her way back to England on her own power.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-79865.aspx (1934 words)

	HMS Plymouth Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Plymouth was then assigned to provide cover for the aircraft carriers and amphibious vessels and was the
		HMS Plymouth left the Falklands with the County Class Destroyer HMS Glamorgan on June 21
		HMS Plymouth was to spend the bulk of her remaining
	www.hmsplymouth.co.uk /history.html (676 words)

	The exocet - Page 3 - Military Photos
		The version about the Exocet hit on HMS Glamorgan I've got is from the official history of the RN's Falklands campaign (I can supply full details of that publication when I'm back home); other sources, however, insist that Exocet did not explode...
		The MM38 launched from land that hit the HMS Glamorgan was taken out from one of the corvettes that stayed at home port.
		Glamorgan was hit at a peculiar angle while the ship was in a turn, which meant she was heeled over at an angle.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=86871&page=3 (2248 words)

	HMS Hermes naval print
		HMS Hermes served with the Royal Navy until 1984, including participating in the Falklands War.
		Spearheading the Falklands Task Force as it heads south in 1982, the carrier HMS Hermes is shown in company with two Type 21 frigates, HMS Arrow on the left and HMS Ardent in the near foreground.
		HMS Hermes was laid down before the end of WWII but was only completed in 1959 after many changes in design to accommodate the new jet aircraft.
	www.ivanberryman.com /hms_hermes.htm (892 words)

	Navy News - The Falklands Conflict - Fact Card - HMS Glamorgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After more than three years in dockyard hands, the County-class guided missile destroyer HMS Glamorgan went home again to Wales for an official visit to Cardiff - and to show off her new image.
		HMS Glamorgan's major modifications include a new torpedo weapons system, new bridge steering, communications and navigational equipment.
		The Glamorgan, the first of the name, was launched by Lady Brecon at the Vickers Armstrong Naval Yard, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, in July 1964.
	www.navynews.co.uk /falklands/ships/glamorgan.asp (484 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 (470 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)

	Alibris: Glamorgan
		The harrowing tale of HMS Glamorgan, the only ship to survive a hit by Exocet during the Falklands War in 1982, told by her Navigating Officer.
		Cuckoo marans in the taproom : an innkeeper in the Vale of Glamorgan
		The Scriptorium of Margam Abbey and the Scribes of Early Angevin Glamorgan: Secretarial Administration in a Welsh Marcher Barony, C.1150-C.1225
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Glamorgan (450 words)

	Mercopress
		HMS Dumbarton Castle spent the weekend completing her final preparations for passage before sailing to complete important upper-deck maintenance.
		Fittingly, Dumbarton Castle was able to stop at the point where Glamorgan was hit by an Exocet on June 12, 1982 claiming the lives of thirteen of her sailors.
		Glamorgan was the first ship in history to survive an Exocet attack and was able to return to the Task Force as an operational unit.
	www.mercopress.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=8572 (183 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002437438 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Publisher description for Ordeal by Exorcet : HMS Glamorgan and the Falklands War 1982 / Ian Inskip.
		HMS Glamorgan, Admiral Woodward's Flagship until Hermes' arrival in Ascension, was in the thick of the fighting throughout the war.
		There is a detailed account of the successful deception plan, Operation Tornado, and, unusually, the impact of the war on the families left at home.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0660/2002437438-d.html (279 words)

	Charlie Lockwood
		This was followed by a draft to HMS Blake (an assault ship).
		Early in 1983 Charlie left 820 Squadron and was drafted to HMS Heron, a shore base in
		He served at HMS Heron as the Senior Rates Mess Manager until 30th May 1992.
	members.aol.com /chazlockwood/cl.html (1025 words)

	HMS FIFE, and 5 years in the Royal Navy
		SCOTLAND At one point I had a year in Scotland at HMS CALEDONIA, this is a shore base near Rosyth.
		HMS FIFE's Paying off book was sent to me in July 2001 by Gavin Douglas.
		HMS Fife was sold some years ago to the Chilean Navy, follow this link to find out her new name !!.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife (593 words)

	Weapons
		HMS Yarmouth used these to good effect when along with HMS Arrow they went to help HMS Sheffield after the exocet attack.
		The Arrow picked up an enemy submarine on her sonar (and got an excellent picture of the sub on her echo sounder) and the Yarmouth swung into action throwing mortors all over the place.
		This missile is the size of a large family saloon, and if nothing else would scare a pilot to death if he saw it approaching him.
	www.davesnavy.co.uk /weapons.html (475 words)

	Associations Link Area - A Bravenet.com Free Links
		Keeping members of the Association in contact by means of newsletters, meetings and other social occasions.Keeping a central record of all HMS Cavalier information and supporting her permanent preservation.
		HMS Penelope Association is open to all who served on the War time cruiser and the Leander class frigate.
		Membership of the HMS St Vincent Association is open to all members of HMS St Vincent past and present.
	pub31.bravenet.com /freelink/show.php?usernum=2636469336&cpv=1 (1008 words)

	Charlie's Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Eagle and spent a few months back at the only non-training
		After serving almost three years on HMS Glamorgan, Charlie was then
		He was drafted to a naval air station, HMS Osprey, at Portland, Dorset.
	members.aol.com /chazlockwood/clph01.html (718 words)

	HMS Invincible sunk in 1982
		HMS Invincible (R05) was sunk by attack combined of AMM-39 Exocet lauched for Naval Argentinian Aviation and 3 bombs lauched for A-4 Skyhawk.
		Let's face it, the Argies hit one warship with an air-ship exocet (plus the Atlantic Conveyer that wasn't a warship after HMS Ambuscade decoyed the exocet in the first place) and they think that the war was near run.
		HMS Glamorgan was hit by a modified ship-launched version that was launched from near Port Stanley and the Atlantic Converer was not a warship.
	www.flymig.com /forum/posts/1128052503.htm (882 words)

	Ordeal by Exocet: HMS Glamorgan and the Falklands War, 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ordeal by Exocet: HMS Glamorgan and the Falklands War, 1982 by Ian Inskip.
		On 12 June 1982, as she returned from a bombardment in support of the last major battle of the Falklands War, county-class destroyer HMS Glamorgan was struck by an Exocet missile launched from a mobile launcher near Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands.
		Rather, it covers Glamorgan’s entire cruise, from the exercise in which she participated before the Argentine invasion to her return to Portsmouth following the war.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/inskip.html (522 words)

	Home
		The Association has been in existence since HMS GLAMORGAN’s return to Portsmouth in 1982 and we understand we are now one of the largest Falkland Associations around.
		The Association has also been involved in commissioning a GLAMORGAN memorial window in Portsmouth Cathedral and lending support to the Falklands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne, Berkshire.
		The purpose of the website is not only to maintain a forum for members to keep in touch but also to provide information to others who may want to find out more about HMS GLAMORGAN’s participation in the Falklands Conflict.
	www.hmsglamorgan.co.uk (198 words)

	HMS JUNO Free-For-All Links - A Bravenet.com Free Links
		The average age of the 199 men on board HMS Ardent was 23 on the 21st May 1982 when she was sunk in action after supporting the landing of British troops onto the Falklands, twenty two men died that day.
		HMS Sheffield Association website for all those who have served on any HMS Sheffield's.
		HMS Sheffield site where you can read about the horror of the exocet missile in the Falklands and even sign a petition to reopen the inquiry if you are outraged
	pub39.bravenet.com /freelink/show.php?usernum=3321934732&cpv=1 (1005 words)

	County Class Guided Missile Destroyers
		Photos and history of the County Class guided missile destroyers, including HMS Devonshire, HMS Hampshire, HMS London, HMS Kent, HMS Fife, HMS Glamorgan, HMS Antrim and HMS Norfolk.
		HMS Norfolk became the first operational Royal Navy warship to fire a surface to surface missile in 1974, during trials of a conversion of B turret to fire Exocet missiles.
		Subsequently, HMS Antrim, HMS Fife and HMS Glamorgan also underwent the conversion.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /county_class1.htm (1146 words)

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