Salt was captain of the Type 42 guided-missile destroyer Sheffield, one of three ships stationed up-threat of the task force to protect the aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible. In the early ...

HMS Sheffield sank six days after the attack, becoming the first Royal Navy ship to be lost in action since the Second World War. The monument, which also honors two other Royal Navy ships that ...

Sheffield was once the crucible of the British Empire and the industrial revolution, producing almost half of Europe’s entire steel supply ...

Sheffield-born Sir John Brown, who developed rolled-steel plates for naval warships, became the first steelmaker to be knighted in 1867. Today, its most famous crucible is the city centre theatre ...