Welcome to the HMS Ardent Association website
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HMS Ardent onroute to the Falklands - May 1982
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The association was set up immediately after the 1982 Falklands Conflict in a hope to foster and promote the name HMS Ardent and provide a focal point to remember our fallen crewmates. Membership is open to all ex-Ardents, the friends and families of the fallen.

This site, our newsletters and the running of the Association is funded by a small annual fee which is currently £10. For more information please contact us through this form.

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Not an Ardent but served on Type 21's, join the new Type 21 Club Association

www.type21club.org.uk

The 21-Club is open to all who served on any one of these superb ships

"We wish to form a 21-Club Association, there is no intention to undermine existing
21-ship associations which we encourage. 21-Club events are open to all the 21 club”


This site is the online home of the survivors, families of the fallen, ex-ships company and friends who make up the HMS Ardent Association which is now in its 28th year.

HMS Ardent was damaged and sunk as a result of Argentine bombs in the Falklands on the 21 May 1982 in which 22 shipmates were lost as a result. Although Ardent's war was brief the ship played a key part in the Battle for Falkland Sound which resulted in the successful landing of British troops onto the Falklands. You can find out more about Ardent's Falkland War in our story section.

There is also an extensive book that documents this piece of British history; Through Fire and Water: HMS Ardent - The Forgotten Frigate of the Falklands War by Mark Higgitt, more here.