Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Remarks on board HMS Hermes on its return to Portsmouth ("superhuman things")

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Portsmouth Harbour
Source: BBC Radio News Report 1800 21 July 1982
Journalist: Phil Jones, BBC, reporting
Editorial comments:

MT was flown by helicopter from Battersea at 0700, landing on board the aircraft carrier. She returned to Battersea Heliport at 1010.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 77
Themes: Defence (Falklands)

MT

[Crowd noise in background] Each person had his job and did it—not only to the best of his ability, but to better than his best, because they were all working together. And, you know, there is a spirit that we each say we have to give our best, but there is a spirit which somehow makes you do superhuman things when you're working together, for something in which you believe, and that's the spirit that pervaded this ship.