Famous Ships

[Ternigapp]

Any ideas please to help finish this quiz:
20. Falkland's ceasefire signed onboard (8)
21. There are 5 of these? (5)
24. Moored in the Pool (7)
32. Last British WW2 destroyer (8)
48. H.M.Y 2006 (9,8)

Thank you

[Pea Pod]

32 Cavalier

[shaneystar2]

24. HMS Belfast is moored in the Pool of London
The area of the river, between Tower and London Bridges.

[kettledrum]

24 Belfast. HMS Belfast is moored in the Pool of London

[philanders]

Pool of London - HMS Belfast

[Ternigapp]

Peapod - I've googled for ages looking for that.

shaneystar - We saw it while on holiday this year, I've been searching Liverpool sites!

Thanks

[shaneystar2]

48 .
HMY is, I think Her Majestys Yacht and as they no longer have the Royal Yacht Brittania , this year the Royal Family sailed round the Western Isles in the Hebridean Princess.

[kettledrum]

48. Hebridean Princess - cruise liner hired by the Queen this summer as part of her 80th birthday celebrations.

[Ternigapp]

shaneystar + kettledrum - that makes sense.

[athene]

20 (HMS) Plymouth

[barmy]

Falklands ceasefire - Canberra

[kettledrum]

20. Oh dear! I think it's HMS Endurance !

[athene]

I think I am wrong. The surrender of South Geogia was signed on HMS Plymouth.

[Pantheon]

A ceasefire may have been signed on board for one of the battle areas (eg South Georgia).

The siging of the Surrender Instrument of all Argentine Forces was on dry-land!! ...........

General J. J. Moore flew in to Port Stanley at 2300 hours on 14th June, 1982, where General Moore and General Menendez met outside the conference room. They saluted each other and said that each side had fought well. General Moore said they should get on with things and produced the surrender documents. General Menendez struck 'unconditional' out of the documents. He had been promised that the surrender would be with 'dignity and honour' in the psy-ops broadcasts.

Menendez also secured the prompt evacuation of his troops as one of the conditions, but the British did not allow him to insert the words 'Islas Malvinas' after 'Falklands'.

At 2359 the document was formally signed and witnessed by Colonel Pennicott. General Menendez asked if he might join his men on the airfield where they were to be grouped prior to repatriation. When this was refused, tears formed in his eyes. He was evacuated to HMS Fearless the following morning.

[Pea Pod]

http://www.falklands.info/history/82doc013.htm l thats what I`d found also

[Pantheon]

athena seems correct above ....

April 25, 1982
A small British comando force retakes the Georgia Island. Argentine Submarine Santa Fe attacked and disabled. The commander of the Argentine forces on the island, Alfredo Astiz, signs an unconditional surrender document on board the British HMS Plymouth without firing a single shot violating the military code's article 751: "A soldier will be condemned to prison for three to five years if, in combat with a foreign enemy, he surrenders without having exhausted his supply of ammunition or without having lost two thirds of the men under his command."

[Ternigapp]

Thank you for all the time you've spent researching answers for me, much appreciated.
Welcome to newcomers philanders, athene and pantheon - hope you enjoy the site as much as I do, they're a friendly lot.

[maggi]

21. How about "Ark Royal"?