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Tag: RFA

  • Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 06:23 UTC

    First ship to claim British victory in Falklands RFA Sir Percivale is dismantled

    Falklands’ hero: Sir Percivale was the first ship to sail into Stanley Harbour following the Argentinean surrender on June 14, 1982

    In her finest hour she was at the forefront of British victory in the Falklands in a long service that saw her serving the country around the world. Now nearly 28-years after Argentina invaded the Falklands, this once great servant of the Royal Navy sits tired and lifeless in a Merseyside dry dock and is destined to become a tin of beans in your kitchen, reports the Mail on Line