Word: portsmouth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hulking, gray floating village of some 1,200 souls, the British carrier Invincible returns to Portsmouth, England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile...
...Picture Researchers Peter Kellner and Robert Stevens assigned photographers to wherever they suspected a picture might conceivably develop. In England, Picture Researcher Brenda Draper posted photographers to the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street, the Ministry of Defense, and places like the naval shipyards in Portsmouth and Plymouth. From Buenos Aires, Picture Researcher Nina Lindley positioned photographers in key locations throughout Argentina...
...Portsmouth, anxious families gathered in pouring rain outside the gates of the British naval headquarters for news of the fate of their loved ones. Special telephone lines installed to pass on information to next of kin were jammed with calls. In the destroyer's namesake city, Union Jacks were lowered to half-mast. Sheffield's Lord Mayor Enid Hattersley was on the verge of tears as she asked mournfully, "What is worth losing young lives for? One is too many." The re-action of most Britons was summed up by a Portsmouth man, who said he "had thought...
...five-year-old Invincible, which so proudly led the British fleet out of Portsmouth Harbor last week, is among the ships the Royal Navy will lose. It has been sold for $315 million to Australia, which will take possession in 1983. But a brand-new replacement, the Illustrious, is going through its final sea trials, and a third carrier, the Ark Royal, is also under construction...
...imagination. Just as the late 20th century was elaborating new anxieties about nuclear war, its gaze flicking distractedly over the future, abruptly the 19th century came barging into the room: a plumed, anachronistic production of outraged empire in its panoply and high rhetoric. The British fleet steamed out of Portsmouth. To relieve Gordon at Khartoum? To lift the siege of Lucknow? The British were vividly time traveling. The ministers of the ex-empire took a bracing, almost archaically principled stand-a position that itself seemed an exercise in nostalgia: quaint, perhaps, but admirable. Honor was mentioned. The imperial ships...