Noted burial
NZPA-Reuter London The Royal Navy yesterday announced its first casualty in its attempt to reclaim the Falkland Islands from Argentina — one ship’s piano. Correspondents aboard the aircraft carrier Hermes, heading for the South Atlantic as part of a 27-vessel battle fleet, reported that the piano had been ceremonially buried at sea.
Officers decided that the heavy honky-tonk could not be safely secured for combat so it was heaved over the side. Bearded crewman have bad to shave off their whiskers, distinguishing features of generations of British sailors, because the captain has decreed that beards and gas masks that will be worn in any action do not mix.
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Press, 13 April 1982, Page 1
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