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Four weeks in May : a captain's story of war at sea / David Hart Dyke.
By: Dyke, David Hart [author.]
.London : Atlantic Books, 2007Description: xxv, 272 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781843545910.Subject(s): Dyke, David Hart | Coventry (Destroyer) | Shipwrecks -- Atlantic Ocean | Falkland Islands War, 1982 -- Naval operations, British | Falkland Islands War, 1982 -- Personal narratives, BritishDDC classification: 997.11024 Summary: "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."-- Atlantic Books site. https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/four-weeks-in-may/
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 997.11024 DYK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020034 |
"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."-- Atlantic Books site.