Falklands War: The Dockyard is a Worker of Miracles

“The First Sea Lord… decreed that HMS Hermes was under just 72 hours’ notice to sail…” It’s the day after the Argentinians invaded The Falklands and Margaret Thatcher announces that Britain would send a task force. Just a few days later, the task force was ready for war. This is the story of the dockyard workers who rose to that challenge, many of whom had just received redundancy notice. Flagship HMS Hermes was in a state of disrepair, “…an assisted maintenance period in Portsmouth Roya...