Four weeks in May : a captain's story of war at sea /
Dyke, David Hart,
Four weeks in May : a captain's story of war at sea / David Hart Dyke. - xxv, 272 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (black and white)
"In March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story."-- https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/four-weeks-in-may/
9781843545910
Dyke, David Hart, subject.
Coventry (Destroyer)
Shipwrecks--Atlantic Ocean.
Falkland Islands War, 1982--Naval operations, British.
Falkland Islands War, 1982--Personal narratives, British.
997.11024
Four weeks in May : a captain's story of war at sea / David Hart Dyke. - xxv, 272 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (black and white)
"In March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War. On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story."-- https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/four-weeks-in-may/
9781843545910
Dyke, David Hart, subject.
Coventry (Destroyer)
Shipwrecks--Atlantic Ocean.
Falkland Islands War, 1982--Naval operations, British.
Falkland Islands War, 1982--Personal narratives, British.
997.11024