On January 9 this year the Daring Class (Type 45) destroyer HMS Diamond was involved in a significant action alongside US forces, defending merchant vessels in the Red Sea from a mass air attack launched from Yemen. It was the most intensive anti-air action since the Falklands War of 1982...
It was the most intensive anti-air action since the Falklands War of 1982, and the first of its kind since the famous shooting down of an Iraqi missile by HMS Gloucester in 1991. The Diamond had arrived in the Red Sea on December 15 last year, destroying a Houthi attack droneon her ...
of Liverpool.The award marked the service given to the city and the country by the men on board the Type 42 destroyer - which had just spent five months patrolling the seas around the Falklands -and those who crewed the six previous ships to bear the name,including the one which took ...
The 74-day war was sparked when the then-military government in Argentina landed an invading force on the islands on April 2, 1982. It ended with a British victory that followed hundreds of casualties on both sides. Argentina has estimated its death toll from...