Mountbatten Boat Ira

Independent news and mediagetty images august 27 1979 a bank holiday had dawned.

Mountbatten boat ira. In scenes that ha. Was lord mountbatten killed by the ira in a boat explosion. Lord mountbattens death in 1979 shocked the nation when the boat he was on with his family suddenly exploded killing him instantly. Mountbatten a war hero elder.

A year earlier in 1978 a planned attempt to shoot him on the boat named shadow v had been aborted last minute when choppy seas meant it was too difficult for. 27 1979 a bomb exploded on a boat off the coast of ireland claiming the life of lord mountbatten and three other people. Lord mountbattens death in 1979 shocked the nation when the boat he was on with his family suddenly exploded killing him instantly. The ira claimed responsibility for the bombing of mountbattens boat swiftly referring to it as an execution while also claiming responsibility for two roadside bombings on the same day.

In scenes that have been re enacted on the crown prince. In actual fact mountbatten had been an ira target since the early 1960s and there had been several attempts to kill him already with an almost obsessive focus on his fishing boat. In scenes that have been re enacted on the crown prince charles great uncle was brutally murdered leaving the royal family devastated. The murder of lord mountbatten by the ira on august 27 in 1979 while on board his yacht off the irish coast is the opening scene in the incredibly popular series the crown which has been watched.

Part of the wreckage of lord mountbattens boat the shadow v after it had been bombed by the ira in august 1979. On august 27 1979 lord louis mountbatten is killed when irish republican army ira terrorists detonate a 50 pound bomb hidden on his fishing vessel shadow v.