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390 results found for '"Ships"' in Keywords.
Allied forces sink Iraqi ship (1991)
- Genre
- News report
Lynx helicopters from HMS Gloucester and HMS London, along with a US A6 fighter bomber, have sunk an Iraqi TNC-45 fast patrol boat carrying Exocet missiles. It was struck by a British Sea Skewer missile and...
Gulf War - Missile attack on British warship (1991)
- Genre
- News report
Report from HMS Gloucester on an Iraqi missile attack on the British warship: how the missile was tracked by radar and shot out of the sky; reports of debris; a description of the missile. Male reporter not...
Gulf War - Missile attack on HMS Gloucester (1991)
- Genre
- News report
Report by Michael Nicholson on the Iraqi missile attack on HMS Gloucester: what kind of missile it was, what the warship was doing, how the missile was shot down less than 30 seconds away from impact, and...
Navy officer given reprimand over trawler sinking (1992)
- Genre
- Speech
Statement by Lieutenant Commander Peter McDonnell (read by Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Hattersley), following his sentence of a severe reprimand after being convicted of negligence by a military court. The...
QE2 runs aground - US coastguard interviewed (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with US coastguard Lieutenant Tom Combs, following the rescue of all passengers on the QE2 after the cruise liner ran aground off the East Coast of America after striking an uncharted object. Male...
QE2 afloat once more after grounding (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with US coastguard Michael Sabellico, after the QE2 ran aground off the East Coast of America after striking an uncharted object. He says the ship has managed to free itself and is in no immediate...
Liverpool tall ships regatta (1992)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Graham Whyte reports on the Tall Ships Spectacular at Liverpool’s Docks. Includes interviews with Nigel Green, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Captain John Whitesides on getting traffic through the...
USA fires at Turkish ship (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Commander Charles Connor of the US Navy European HQ talks about a rescue operation involving a Turkish destroyer. The ship was accidentally fired at by a US warship during a NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea....
Around the world in 74 days (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
Keith Howell talks at the French port of Brest to Enza crew member Peter Blake about their record-breaking voyage and its stormy end. The eight-man crew sailed around the world in seventy-four days and seven...
Royal yacht Britannia to be scrapped (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Max Cotton reports on the announcement by Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, that the royal yacht, Britannia, is to be taken out of service by 1997 to save money and looks at reaction to the decision and...