Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio Somerset,19 mins

Remembering HMS Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor

Claire Carter on BBC Radio Somerset

Available for over a year

Crew members from RNAS Yeovilton look back on the loss of the ships in the Falklands War 40 years ago. Nineteen men died when the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Coventry and 12 men on Atlantic Conveyor were killed in the attacks on 25 May 1982. Jack Killah also speaks to an aircrewman involved in the rescue effort and the twin sister of one of the men who was killed. Image of Atlantic Conveyor: Royal Navy

Programme Website
More episodes