Minister for Defence Procurement, Alex Chalk, delivered a speech at the steel cutting of HMS Active - a Type 31 frigate - at Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland.
On Monday 11 July 1982, forty years ago, the SS Canberra – an ocean liner requisitioned by the British Ministry of Defense to transport personnel - returned from the Falklands conflict to Southampton, where she was escorted by a fleet of small vessels and some 2,500 members of the Armed Forces were greeted by cheering crowds.