The sinking of HMS Coventry ... s been picked up by a film-maker.’ Captain Hart Dyke, a former Commander of the Royal Yacht Britannia, added: ‘I would be delighted if it comes off but I’m ...

And when a new HMS Coventry joined the Fleet in the late 1970s, a Cross of Nails was donated to the destroyer as an enduring bond with the city. Kept in the captain’s cabin, it also became the ...