MercoPress

HMS Exeter,“Save this Falklands ship for the future”

Veterans have called for a Falklands warship to be saved from the scrapheap. The crew of HMS Exeter saluted the destroyer as she returned home to Portsmouth last month to enter what the navy calls' ...
MercoPress

HMS Exeter is celebrated in a new set of Falklands stamps.

HMS Exeter (D89) (seen on the 30p £1.66p) was the seventh Type 42 destroyer and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be called Exeter. Designed to provide area air defence to a group of ships, a ...
Daily Mail

HMS Defenceless: Two destroyers sail minus missiles to save cash

Two Royal Navy destroyers have been sent to sea virtually defenceless against air attack after their guided missiles were removed to save money. The Sea Dart missiles, which have a range of 40 miles, ...
ITV

Special service held to remember the crew of HMS Exeter

A special service has been remembering the crew of HMS Exeter which sank in the Far East during the Second World War. Around fifty men were killed as the ship went down. But many more died at the ...
The News Portsmouth

Tributes paid to Basil Trott, the last surviving member of HMS Exeter in the Battle of the River Plate

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Crime

The last survivor of sunken ship HMS Exeter dies aged 102

War hero Lloyd Seaward - the last survivor of HMS Exeter - has sadly passed away at the age of 102 in Canada. He survived the sinking of HMS Exeter in 1942 and was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
The Sun

British war graves looted as three Royal Navy ships that sank in WWII go MISSING from seabed off Indonesia

Government demands probe after wrecks of HMS Exeter, HMS Electra and HMS Encounter found to have vanished THE wrecks of three Royal Navy battleships that were sunk in a ferocious WWII battle have ...
The Daily Telegraph

Wartime naval legend HMS Exeter found off Java

The cruiser HMS Exeter, best known for its valiant role in the Battle of the River Plate when it hunted down the pride of the German navy, the Admiral Graf Spee, was located by divers searching the ...
The Daily Telegraph

HMS Exeter: last Falklands ship retires from service

HMS Exeter, the last surviving operational Royal Navy warship which took part in the Falklands War, will retire from service on Wednesday. 27 May 2009 • 7:32am A decommissioning ceremony to mark the ...
Crime

The day HMS Exeter took on the pride of the German navy - and won

Almost 81 years ago to the day, a German naval officer by the name of captain Hans Langsdorff put on his uniform, wrapped himself in a German flag, and shot himself in the head. Just three days ...
ITV

War veteran's part in HMS Exeter commemoration

Geoffrey Stott, from Salford, was only a teenager when he joined the crew of the famous Royal Navy cruiser HMS Exeter early in the second world war. Geoffrey led a wreath-laying service in memory of ...