Reunion 2013

The 31st reunion will be held in Plymouth on Saturday 25 May 2013, more details in the latest newsletters and on our Facebook Group page. The 2013 booking form also available in the Members Area, if you have not sent in your booking form to Pete yet then the clock is ticking so please do it as [...]
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Falklands 1982

“I must pay tribute, public tribute, as certainly the troops would wish us to, to the crew of ‘Ardent’, the frigate that went down, sunk last night. They had a gun line over the British landing troops, they had to stay in position, or else the troops were totally unprotected. Ardent was in a totally [...]

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Fallen Shipmates

During the Battle of Falkland Sound on the 21 May 1982 HMS Ardent was lost in action and 22 of the 199 crew were left behind. A memorial on Campito Hill looks down upon their last resting place in Falkland Sound: AB(S) Derek Armstrong Lt Cdr Richard Banfield AB(S) Andrew Barr POAEM(M) Peter Brouard CK Richard Dunkerley [...]
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Welcome

This site is part of 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 31st year, membership details are here.

Launched in May 1975 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.

The older HMS Ardent website is slowly being migrated to this new format with a target date of completion of December 2013. The reason for the change is  to bring greater flexibility to the running of the website using newer technology and better integration into social sharing websites like Facebook which more people use now.

 

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    HMS Ardent Falklands Timeline

    The latest addition to the new HMS Ardent Association website is now live and is a multi-media timeline of the ship and crew’s service in the 1982 Falklands War. Spanning the period from the Argentine invasion on Friday 2 April 1982 it finishes on 8 August 1982 with the remembrance and thanksgiving service in HMS Drake. Items on the timeline include video interviews with [...]

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    Falklands’ veteran opens San Carlos bar in HMS Drake

    A VETERAN commander from the Falklands Conflict has ceremonially opened a new-look bar at Devonport Naval Base. Retired Royal Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour OBE unveiled the plaque at the bar in the senior rates and warrant officers’ mess at HMS Drake. The bar has been named San Carlos, because San Carlos Bay was the [...]

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    Pete Rowe’s Falkland Trip

    In Pete’s own words: 50 of us from all three services arrived at MPA on the 8th November, tired after a 8 hour delay at Ascension, due to bad weather in the Falkland’s, but pleased to be back. We were met by our host families who looked after us for the week. On the Friday [...]

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    Warship Magazine Feature on ARDENT

    At this years Plymouth reunion in May the Editor of WARSHIPS IFR magazine, Iain Ballantyne, met with some of the HMS Ardent Association to get background information for an item he wanted to write about HMS Ardent’s role in the Falklands war. The final item became a 4 page article called ‘The First & Last Fight of Ardent’ and discusses the [...]

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