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The name HMS Ardent has been carried by Royal Navy warships for over 250 years, and a striking number of them have come to violent ends. canadian lawful access act The most famous tragedies cluster across the 20th century. At the Battle of Jutland on the night of May 31, 1916, the destroyer HMS Ardent under Commander Arthur Marsden charged a German battleship line in a torpedo attack, was caught in searchlights at point-blank range, and was hammered to pieces by gunfire. She went down with all but two of her 80 crew. On June 8, 1940, off Norway, a different HMS Ardent was vittorio feltri screening the carrier HMS Glorious when the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau caught the small force in clear weather. Ardent and her sister Acasta charged the battleships in a hopeless torpedo attack to give Glorious time to escape. Both destroyers were sunk. Glorious was sunk anyway. 152 men of Ardent died. On May 21, 1982, the Type 21 frigate HMS Ardent was bombed by Argentine A-4 Skyhawks during the Falklands landings at San Carlos Water and went down with 22 of her crew. Three Ardents lost in buongiorno venerdì 8 maggio three wars, all in violent surface actions, all charging in.
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