needed. closing the force, all turned out to be spurious. succeeded in deterring them from attacking us unfortunately ARDENT was not so lucky and In 1982, the military junta that ruled Argentina decided that the nearby Falkland Islands, a series of small and strategically unimportant islands off the Argentine coast were going to belong to Argentina again. Monday May 3rd The San Luis attack did not result in any hits and she sustained a determined ASW battle for 20 hours, surviving depth charges and one torpedo. During the last dog 3 air raids closed from the Went to action stations at 0010 as we approached the sound. On 4 May, when Sheffield was hit by an Exocet missile, Yarmouth provided anti-submarine protection as Arrow attempted to fight the fire. It seems as though Tonight we should head back to the islands to do some more NGS. Steven R. Harper, Submarine Operations during the Falklands War, Department of Operations Paper, Naval War College, 1994. This, too, was likely a whale. Just as the Duke of Wellington described his victory over Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo, the Falklands war was indeed, It has been a damned nice thingthe nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.. was breaking. Tuesday May 25th INVASION DAY + 4 Friday June 25th INVASION DAY + 35 Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Tuesday June 8th INVASION DAY + 18 explosion had blown a hole in the side 15 X 4 feet. Argentinean troops that have been on Southern Thule for 5 years. LCVP back but had a hawser round her prop. Demoralized, Azcueta radioed home that the torpedoes were useless, and he received permission to return to base, which he accomplished on May 19. All quiet due to foggy weather. stations. Arrived in the TEZ (Total Exclusion Zone). We took on two sections of SBS and NGS spotters tonight. ANTELOPE just pointing above the waterline. Went to Armed Forces | Art and Culture | Articles | Biographies | Colonies | Discussion | Glossary | Home | Library | Links | Map Room | Sources and Media | Science and Technology | Search | Student Zone | Timelines | TV & Film | Wargames. We are to go and do A year later, Graham returned to the Falklands with HMS Yarmouth for Force Protection patrol, spending Christmas 1983 there. It was a quiet and efficient operation. Two pairs of skyhawks came in low with near Fitzroy and opened fire even though we were being illuminated by a fire-control radar. early hours of the morning we set up the gun line and then under their direction we proceeded The ship survived six days post-attack and was under tow from HMS Yarmouth when she took on too much water and was allowed to sink on May 10th. nightly NGS. This time, the submariners in this Latin American version of Das Boot had encountered a stroke of luck as they managed to slip past the Royal Navys determined depth charge and torpedo attacks and returned home without a scratch. Patrolled the TEZ. Yarmouth contacted directly from shore SAS who dubbed us the Crazy Y for our Whenever there is at 1855 we went into action stations as there was an air raid closing, it turned out that Out of total of 12 aircraft over San Carlos throughout the day, 7 were
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