Mike Smith

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Mike Smith (Lt)

Many good memories; the Captain's diary is the most accurate record of the Falklands that I have ever seen. Last year I met with Chris Kent, who had been in the gemini firefighting over the side of Sheffield and who had been picked up by us, in the middle of taking torpedo countermeasures including firing the mortar not a million miles from him. I was on the con at the time. Another great memory is of Paul Miller (Pilot) handing the Captain a gift package on the bridge, just after the air raid on the San Carlos first aid station, when our wasp had narrowly avoided being hit by a bomb. The package contained sheep's droppings and bones, Paul claiming that it proved that Yarmouth had landed on the Falklands! Does anyone remember when our party of sand bag fillers dived in to a latrine trench at the same location during an air raid, thinking it was a safety trench? I also remember the sound the exocet made as it flew just above and ahead of us during the Sheffield attack, the gun director reporting that he had also seen it.