The average age of the 199 men on board HMS Ardent was 23 on the 21st May 1982 when she was sunk in action after supporting the landing of British troops onto the Falklands, twenty two men died that day. A timeline of events of the Falklands War can be seen here.
 
This site is the online home of the survivors, families of the fallen and friends who make up the HMS Ardent Association.   If you want to know more about membership, and our reunions, then please select this link to contact us. An overview entry about HMS Ardent, as well as more information about the Type 21 frigate family, can be read on the Wikipedia website here.

Our story is  told in a book written by Mark Higgitt: Through Fire and Water: HMS Ardent - The Forgotten Frigate of the Falklands War. 

The paperback version (April 2007) is currently available from amazon.co.uk. 

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