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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

As so often happens when reading wikipedia, one thing lead to another and I found my self reading about the HMS Sheffield, when I found the bit below.

HMS Sheffield (D80) was the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Sheffield, after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire...The ship was part of the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck by an Exocet cruise missile fired by a French-made Dassault Super Étendard belonging to the Argentine Navy on 4 May 1982. Although the Exocet reportedly failed to explode, the impact of the missile travelling at 315 m/s and laden with unburnt rocket fuel was enough to set the ship ablaze...dooming the ship to be consumed by the raging fire.

While the ship was sinking, her crew, waiting to be rescued, sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Gotta love those Brits.

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