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Petition update, 27 March 2009

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Both HMS Intrepid and HMS Fearless are in Portsmouth harbour waiting to be scrapped. Both ships were crucial to the success of the British campaign to liberate the Falkland Islands in 1982.

One of these ships could be preserved in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, alongside HMS Victory and the other historic warships, as a museum to this conflict and as a permanent memorial to those people who lost their lives.

The ship could be transformed into a museum utilising the flight deck to exhibit aircraft and the tank deck to exhibit vehicles and equipment.

Whilst there will be many arguments as to which ship should be preserved, at least one of them needs to be kept as a fitting memorial to the Task Force of 1982.

Current signatories

Terry Ward, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Melvin Wagstaff
• John Doherty
• Steve Healey
• Chris Salberg
• Fiona McWilliam
• andrew kiddell
• Barbara Ward
• Simon Gunton
• Richard Gunton
• paul cronin
• Nicola Healey
• Sally Martyn
• samantha cronin
• Matt
• Nick Chatwin
• D Maude
• Richard White
• Denzil Connick
• Tony Chambers
• Andrw J Rutherford
• Pam Rutherford
• Brian Doidge
• Nick Carey
• Jeff
• Dick King
• S King
• Louise M
• James Dryhurst
• D Hartle
• Chris Clark
• Ivan Clark
• Rab Carrigan
• spike dunkin
• STUART BEATTIE FORMER ROYAL MARINE
• Robin Oliver Ex ACC
• Simon J Richards RN
• steve redding
• Derek Cole
• steve armour
• Andrew Goodman
• Michael Quinn
• george heron
• Louise Anne Heron
• keith furminger
• Paula Gibson
• John Atkinson
• lily heron
• Ivana Zatloukalova-Draper
• Terry Johnson
• Marco Carlino
• Pat Clark
• Lisa Bainbridge
• Deborah Nightingale
• Victoria Head
• Alexandra McClennan
• Lou Tate
• g.goodman
• Roger Wells
• D.Reed
• Emma Bainbridge
• Clare Moore
• Sir Steve henderson
• L.Henderson
• Paul Lawrence
• Kenneth Corden
• Steve Dickinson (ex ships company)
• Kevin Gilbert
• Mark Wood
• Samantha Andrewartha
• Steven Brown
• Gary Thompson
• david whipp
• Steve Taylor
• Michael Fleming
• Mr.Dominic Busuttil
• Jordan rice
• Stuart Singleton-White
• J Clark
• Julie Rushworth
• Mark Gill
• Kirsty Greenhalgh
• Malcolm Owen
• tim goodman
• Neil Evans
• David Price
• Caroline Day
• JACKIE CRAIG
• Ian Nurse
• Russell Baker
• Toby Webber
• Harry Wilcock
• Richard Verey
• Jonathan Cook
• Michelle Cook
• paul malesa
• harvey wright
• Bradley Wright
• Thomas Bee
• michael rogers
• Ian Shenton
• John Simpson
• Alethea Snelling
• Barry Latham
• martin cook
• Tom Picton Phillipps
• Stephen Penfold
• Paddy May
• Lloyd Davies
• christopher seymour
• Ben Sharp
• Allen Hardcastle
• David Dunbar MBE (ex RM)
• Gary Hawley
• Geoff Hassell
• Robert Perrin
• Graeme Shaw
• Brian Bilverstone (Falklands Veteran)
• Ken McNally
• Stephen Gerard Scullion
• Ian Potter
• Brian Edwards
• John Marshall
• holly kingdon-Anslow
• Christopher walton
• Malcolm Dobson
• Jonathan Suckling
• Mike Bee
• mike kemble
• SUSAN ALLBUT
• hugh anderson
• Robert Hanley
• Dominic Riley
• Malcolm Clarke
• DAVID MCADAMS
• Ron Boniface
• John David Jones
• John McGrath
• Keith Burrage
• Chad Johnson
• ERNEST HARTLAND ex RMB
• Lt Dave Williams RNR
• Pamela Meldrum
• Derek Evans
• Cedric Whitehouse Ex Greenie
• J. F. Harris
• Ken Andrews
• John. E. Birch. ex Royal Navy
• Gary Truelove
• Walter John Mason
• jeanine hardcastle
• Duncan Ellis, RN Rtd
• FRANK FARMER.EX BUNTING
• JULIE MERCHANT
• Colin Allison
• paul dobson
• Julie Thatcher
• John Stoker
• Christopher John Atkin
• Paul Brooks
• Linda Haw
• J V Edwards
• Tatiana Hardcastle
• Harry Collier
• Peter Middleton
• Kenneth Booth PO/EL.
• Andrew Williams
• Peter Hoe-Richardson
• J H Andrews RN retd
• Dugal C R Muller
• Alex A Williams
• Carol Gibbs
• Rod Angood
• Deborah Banfield
• Tim Bateman
• Robert Jull
• Roland (Tom) Sawyer
• Albert Leach
• Mark Bennett
• Nick Smith
• Michael Bateman
• Margaret Ross
• John Ross
• Adrian Balhetchet
• Louise Spearing
• Ron Smith, SAMA(82)
• Darby Allen (ex DTS)
• Thomas Wilson
• Antony Hay Parsons
• Grant Fettis
• vic loud
• brendan coulton
• paul stone
• Robert dawson
• Bob Smith
• Jean Bradshaw
• helen randell
• Keith Hill
• Kevin Greathurst x RCT
• Richard Peacocke SAMA82
• Chris Carter
• ken wharton
• robert moss
• Toby Jennings
• kerry blackburn
• claire rutter
• samantha blackburn
• james rutter
• karen blackburn
• Chris Heaton
• K.M.Lewis
• keith lynch
• Ian Paterson
• michael fitch
• Martin Baird(ex ships co)
• Justin Chard
• Blythe Richards
• neil wilkinson
• Reece Derek Valentine
• Duncan Inness
• Clifford Cook
• B.A.Mitchell.
• Abbie Lambert
• Irene Setters
• Kevin Weatherley
• Paul Quine
• Robert Eccles
• Mark Lawden
• Mark Hull
• Mark Westwood
• dave harcus
• D E Jones
• Bob Almey
• paul aspery
• steve newson
• Marc Jones
• Philip Gibbon
• james Mitchell
• James Bradshaw
• Antony Whitfield
• Chris Harrison (H.T.D.) Falklands Vet
• Simon Harrison
• David hodgson
• Andy Rixon
• Jonathan Martin
• Kameron Stroud
• Steve Nicholson,ex 3 para
• Alan Doig
• Beauchamp Comber
• Samantha Walsh
• collette carrigan
• Adrian Shaw
• Christopher Robert Swift
• Brian Hughes
• M williams
• Andrew Milne
• kenneth shuttlewood
• NIGEL GODFREY
• Alan McGinley
• Daniel P. Williams
• ROB CHAPMAN
• John Holmes
• Jayne Riley
• Sean McCarthy
• Marshall Stephenson
• Richard Carling
• james stables
• Larry Silk
• Alexandra Turton
• Edward Clarke
• Phil Holbrook
• sean young
• alan meek
• Richard Symonds RNR
• Ian Mcvitie
• Herbie Brick
• Matthew Bate
• Richard Young
• BRIAN HENDERSON
• Sean Young
• David T Noone
• colin fairclough
• maria ann cahill
• Ronald W. MACLEOD, ex. RN.
• Leigh Qurrey
• martin witham
• Craig Cameron
• Tim Smart
• Jason Drobig
• Patrick Jennings
• JOAN SOOLE
• Colin G Johnson
• Davd Ives
• Stuart Anderson
• Stephanie-Roxanne Blanco
• Ian Harris
• Sarah McBride