"HMS Conqueror (S48) HMS ""Conqueror"" was a British nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was the third submarine of her class, following the earlier and , that were all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. ""Conqueror"" the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser ""General Belgrano"" during the 1982 Falklands War. ""Conqueror"" was ordered on 9 August 1966 and was laid down at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 5 December 1967; she was launched on"
"Sea Cat anti-aircraft missiles. Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War on 2 May 1982 by the British attack submarine , with the loss of 323 lives. USS Phoenix (CL-46) USS ""Phoenix"" (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the family. She was the third ""Phoenix"" of the United States Navy. After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and was ultimately renamed in 1956. ""General Belgrano"" was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by the British nuclear-powered submarine , the only ship to have been sunk in combat by a nuclear-powered submarine during wartime. She"
"ARA General Belgrano ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. as , she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold by the United States Navy to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1896. She was sunk on 2 May 1982 during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine with the loss of 323 lives. Losses from ""General Belgrano"""
"various courts in 1995. ARA General Belgrano ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. as , she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold by the United States Navy to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1896. She was sunk on 2 May 1982 during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine with the loss of 323 lives."
"USS Phoenix (CL-46) USS ""Phoenix"" (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the family. She was the third ""Phoenix"" of the United States Navy. After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and was ultimately renamed in 1956. ""General Belgrano"" was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by the British nuclear-powered submarine , the only ship to have been sunk in combat by a nuclear-powered submarine during wartime. She was laid down on 15 April 1935 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 13 March 1938; sponsored by Mrs. Dorothea Kays Moonan;"
"Bouchard"" (also ex-USN vessels) were detached from Task Group 79.2 and together with the tanker YPF ""Puerto Rosales"", joined ""General Belgrano"" to form Task Group 79.3. By 29 April, the ships were patrolling the Burdwood Bank, south of the islands. On 30 April, ""General Belgrano"" was detected by the British nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine . The submarine approached over the following day. On 1 May 1982, Admiral Juan Lombardo ordered all Argentine naval units to seek out the British task force around the Falklands and launch a ""massive attack"" the following day. ""General Belgrano"", which was outside and to the south-west"
"famous of the class, sinking the Argentinian cruiser during the 1982 Falklands War. She did not fire again during the war, but provided valuable help to the British task force by using her monitoring equipment to track Argentine aircraft departing the mainland. After the war ""Conqueror"" returned to Faslane; the sinking of ""General Belgrano"" had provoked controversy in Britain and ""Conqueror"" was criticised for flying the Jolly Roger on returning to port, as Royal Navy submarines customarily did on returning after scoring a kill. She the only nuclear-powered submarine of any nationality to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes."
"submarines) and the Argentine fleet were operating in the neighbourhood of the Falklands and soon came into conflict. The first naval loss was the Second World War-vintage Argentine light cruiser . The nuclear-powered submarine sank ""General Belgrano"" on 2 May. Three hundred and twenty-three members of ""General Belgrano""s crew died in the incident. More than 700 men were rescued from the open ocean despite cold seas and stormy weather. The losses from ""General Belgrano"" totalled nearly half of the Argentine deaths in the Falklands conflict and the loss of the ship hardened the stance of the Argentine government. Regardless of"
"also his alleged cruelty to his own staff and colleagues, to which MacKenzie has since responded: MacKenzie was responsible for the ""Gotcha"" front-page headline of 4 May 1982, which reported the contentious sinking of the Argentinian cruiser ""General Belgrano"" by a British submarine during the Falklands War. MacKenzie was heavily condemned by some commentators who felt he was glorifying death and the headline caused a storm of controversy and protest, although MacKenzie had actually changed the front-page of later editions to ""Did 1,200 Argies drown?"" after it was established that there had been a large number of Argentine casualties. MacKenzie"
"the main naval units that joined the 1955 coup in which Perón was overthrown, and was renamed ""General Belgrano"" after General Manuel Belgrano, who founded the ""Escuela de Náutica"" (School of Navigation) in 1799 and had fought for Argentine independence from 1811 to 1819. ""General Belgrano"" accidentally rammed her sister ship ""Nueve de Julio"" on exercises in 1956, which resulted in damage to both. ""General Belgrano"" was outfitted with the Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile system between 1967 and 1968. After the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, on 2 April 1982 Britain declared a maritime exclusion zone of 200 nautical"
"active during the Falklands War of 1982. The Argentine cruiser ARA ""General Belgrano"", subsequently sunk by the British Fleet, sailed from the Port of Ushuaia, where a memorial was erected in February 1996. It is located at 6 meters above sea level, located on Ushuaia Bay, surrounded to the west, north and east by the Andes Fueguinos. From the position of the rest of Argentina, it is the only city in the country that is accessed by crossing part of the Andes mountain range that runs along the southern edge of the Tierra del Fuego. In order to proceed to"
"on the Falkland Islands in 1833 gave a context for the 1982 conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the islands. The initial invasion in April 1982 was characterised by Argentina as the re-occupation of its own territory, and by the UK as an invasion of a British overseas territory. Britain launched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Argentine Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. The use of Britain's nuclear submarine force led to the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser the Belgrano and the consequent non-intervention of the Argentine navy. In the"
"1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident On 6 June 1982, during the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer engaged and destroyed a British Army Gazelle helicopter, serial number ""XX377"", in a friendly fire incident, killing all four occupants. ""Cardiff"", on the lookout for aircraft flying supplies to the Argentine forces occupying the Falkland Islands, had misidentified the helicopter as an enemy C-130 Hercules. Although the helicopter's loss was initially blamed on enemy action, a subsequent inquiry found ""Cardiff""s missile to be the cause. On the night of 5 June, HMS ""Cardiff"" was stationed to the east"
"""General Belgrano"". Diplomatic efforts to that point had failed completely. After the sinking, Argentina rejected the plan but the UK indicated its acceptance on 5 May. The news was subsequently dominated by military action and it is not well known that the British continued to offer ceasefire terms until 1 June that were rejected by the Junta. On 3 May 1982, Argentina's Chancellery released a statement in the name of the Argentinian government that read: Neither the United Kingdom or Argentina declared war during the conflict. Combat was confined to the area around and on the Falkland islands and South"
"Chris Wreford-Brown Christopher Louis Wreford-Brown DSO RN (born August 1945) is a retired British Royal Navy officer. He was captain of HM Submarine ""Conqueror"" during the Falklands War, during which ""Conqueror"" attacked and destroyed the Argentine Navy's cruiser the ARA ""General Belgrano"". For the Falklands patrol he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He is currently the only naval officer to have commanded a nuclear submarine which has sunk a warship in war operations. When asked about the incident later, Wreford-Brown responded, ""The Royal Navy spent thirteen years preparing me for such an occasion. It would have been regarded as"
"Diana Gould – Margaret Thatcher exchange An exchange on 24 May 1983 between Diana Gould, an English schoolteacher and former Women's Royal Naval Service meteorological officer, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was voted in 1999 as one of Britain's most memorable television spots. Gould confronted Thatcher on the BBC current-affairs programme ""Nationwide"" over the sinking of the ""General Belgrano"" during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Gould was appearing as a member of the public on ""Nationwide""s ""On the Spot"" live election special. The ""ARA General Belgrano"", an Argentine war ship, sank with the loss of"
"torpedoed and sank the cruiser ARA ""General Belgrano"" on 2 May. Thatcher was criticised for the neglect of the Falklands' defence that led to the war, and especially by Tam Dalyell in parliament for the decision to sink the ""General Belgrano"", but overall she was considered a highly capable and committed war leader. The ""Falklands factor"", an economic recovery beginning early in 1982, and a bitterly divided opposition all contributed to Thatcher's second election victory in 1983. In September 1982 she visited China to discuss with Deng Xiaoping the sovereignty of Hong Kong after 1997. China was the first communist"
"extent of Britain's eavesdropping. Diana Gould – Margaret Thatcher exchange An exchange on 24 May 1983 between Diana Gould, an English schoolteacher and former Women's Royal Naval Service meteorological officer, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was voted in 1999 as one of Britain's most memorable television spots. Gould confronted Thatcher on the BBC current-affairs programme ""Nationwide"" over the sinking of the ""General Belgrano"" during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Gould was appearing as a member of the public on ""Nationwide""s ""On the Spot"" live election special. The ""ARA General Belgrano"", an Argentine war ship, sank"
"for either the AS.11(M) or AS.12(M) which was sold in numbers due to its cost-effective firepower. The AS.12 saw action on both sides of the 1982 Falklands War. It was fired from Westland Wasp helicopters against the Argentine submarine . A total of nine missiles were fired at the submarine which was trapped on the surface and unable to dive after its dive tanks suffered damage from a depth charge attack by a British Royal Navy Wessex HAS.3 antisubmarine helicopter. Of the missiles fired four hit, four missed and one failed to launch. Two of the missiles that hit the"
"Mayport, Florida on 6 March 1972 and arriving at Puerto Belgrano on 18 April. Both ships served during the 1982 Falklands War where they were involved in a confused episode. The British claimed to have sunk ""Comodoro Somellera"" with a Sea Skua missile, but this claim was subsequently dropped when the British re-evaluated claims after the war. ""Comodoro Somellera"" spent the period of the war in the opening of the Strait of Magellan. From 1988 she was assigned to Ushuaia naval base until 1995, when she was transferred back to Puerto Belgrano. In 1997, she participated on ""Operacion Calypso"", an"
"veteran of Surigao Strait, , was transferred to Argentina in 1951 as , becoming most famous for being sunk by in the Falklands War on 2 May 1982. She was the first ship sunk by a nuclear submarine outside of accidents, and only the second ship sunk by a submarine since World War II. Battle off Samar<br> At the Battle off Samar, a Japanese battleship group moving towards the invasion fleet off Leyte engaged a minuscule American force known as ""Taffy 3"" (formally Task Unit 77.4.3), composed of six escort carriers with about 28 aircraft each, three destroyers, and four"
"Augusto Bedacarratz Frigate Captain Augusto Bedacarratz is an Argentina naval aviator who led the mission on 4 May 1982 that sank during the Falklands War using the Exocet AM.39 anti-ship missile. It was the first sinking of a Royal Navy ship in four decades. He was born in La Pampa Province. He joined the Argentine Naval Academy, graduating first in his class in 1965. On 4 May 1982, an Argentine scout plane located ""Sheffield"". Bedacarratz and Lieutenant Armando Mayora were the two pilots on duty in the Search and Attack Naval Squadron, and were ordered to take off. Neither pilot"
"of their duties. Home Office minutes suggest they did not think this kind of informal punishment of jurors who had returned the ""wrong"" verdict was unheard of. In 1982, during the Falklands War, the British Royal Navy sank an Argentine cruiser, the ARA ""General Belgrano"". Three years later a civil servant (government employee) named Clive Ponting leaked two government documents concerning the sinking of the cruiser to a Member of Parliament (Tam Dalyell) and was subsequently charged with breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911. The prosecution in the case demanded that the jury convict Ponting as he"
"the last minute by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418. She was sold to Argentina instead and delivered on 9 November 1978. She was rushed into service and deployed a month later for the Operation Soberanía against Chile. In 1982 she served in the Falklands War most notably in the Invasion of South Georgia where she was damaged by Royal Marines weapon fire which led to her spending three days in dry dock for repairs before rejoining the fleet as part of Task Group 79.4, alongside her sister ships operating to the north of the islands. She carried the P-2"
"Georgia. ""General Belgrano"" was sunk outside the total exclusion zone around the Falklands, delimited by the UK. Through a message passed via the Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires to the Argentine government on 23 April, the UK made clear that it no longer considered the 200-mile (370 km) exclusion zone as the limit of its military action. The message read: Interviews conducted by Martin Middlebrook for his book, ""Argentine Fight For The Falklands"", indicated that Argentine naval officers understood the intent of the message was to indicate that any ships operating near the exclusion zone could be attacked. Argentine Rear"
"1995 with the rank of Captain, and was employed as a Director of Paignton Zoo until his retirement in 2010. Chris Wreford-Brown Christopher Louis Wreford-Brown DSO RN (born August 1945) is a retired British Royal Navy officer. He was captain of HM Submarine ""Conqueror"" during the Falklands War, during which ""Conqueror"" attacked and destroyed the Argentine Navy's cruiser the ARA ""General Belgrano"". For the Falklands patrol he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He is currently the only naval officer to have commanded a nuclear submarine which has sunk a warship in war operations. When asked about the incident later,"
"South Atlantic islands, but launched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force, and to retake the islands by amphibious assault. The Navy disabled one Argentine submarine, the ""Santa Fe"", in South Georgia and sank the light cruiser ""General Belgrano"" but lost a number of ships due to air attack. Another Argentine submarine tried to attack the task force but was held off by the British anti-submarine warfare. The assault force was landed at San Carlos Water in the Falklands. The British eventually prevailed and the islands returned to British control. The Royal Navy took part"
"time: USS ""Thresher"" and ""Scorpion"". The Thresher was lost due to equipment failure, and the exact cause of the loss of the Scorpion is not known. The sinking of PNS ""Ghazi"" in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was the first submarine casualty in the South Asian region. The United Kingdom employed nuclear-powered submarines against Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War. The sinking of the cruiser ARA ""General Belgrano"" by HMS ""Conqueror"" was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in war. During this conflict, the conventional Argentinian submarine ARA ""Santa Fé"" was disabled by a Sea Skua missile, and the"
"Clive Ponting Clive Sheridan Ponting (born 13 April 1946) is a former senior civil servant, best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the ARA ""General Belgrano"" in the Falklands War. He is the author of a number of revisionist books on British and world history. While a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Ponting sent two documents, subsequently nicknamed ""the crown jewels"", to Labour MP Tam Dalyell in July 1984 concerning the sinking of an Argentine navy warship ""General Belgrano"", a key incident in the Falklands War of 1982. After Ponting admitted revealing the information,"
"HMS Glasgow (D88) HMS ""Glasgow"" was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. The last of the Batch 1 Type 42 destroyers, ""Glasgow"" was commissioned in 1979. The destroyer fought during the Falklands War, and on 12 May 1982 was damaged by a bomb from an Argentine A-4 Skyhawk. ""Glasgow"" was part of the Royal Navy’s 3 Destroyer Squadron along with HMS ""York"" (Captain D3), HMS ""Edinburgh"" ""and HMS Liverpool"". The 3 Destroyer Squadron was based in Rosyth during the 1980s and early 1990s before being moved to Portsmouth when Rosyth Dockyard was privatised and re-purposed. The destroyer was"
"ARA Santísima Trinidad (D-2) ARA ""Santísima Trinidad"" (""Most Holy Trinity"") is a Type 42 destroyer of the Argentine Navy, the only one of her class built outside Britain. She participated in the 1982 Falklands War. From January 2013 to December 2015, the warship was lying on her side, sunk at her moorings in the Argentine naval base of Puerto Belgrano for lack of maintenance. She was refloated and the navy plans to turn her into a museum ship. The destroyer was built at the Argentine AFNE Río Santiago shipyard and commissioned in 1980. Construction began in 1973, but commissioning was"
"Navy on 25 May 1977. The ship was rammed by the Soviet cruiser ""Admiral Isakov"" on 27 May 1981, while in the Barents Sea collecting information on new Soviet equipment. ""Glasgow"" was among the five Type 42 destroyers which were part of the Task Force sent to retake the Falkland Islands after invasion by Argentina in on 2 April 1982. Armed with the Sea Dart long range anti-aircraft missile system, ""Glasgow"" along with her sister ships, and were among the first ships to arrive in a exclusion zone imposed by the British around the islands. ""Glasgow"" was deployed towards the"
"HMS Coventry (D118) HMS ""Coventry"" was a Type 42 (""Sheffield""-class) destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 29 January 1973, she was launched on 21 June 1974 and accepted into service on 20 October 1978 at a cost of £37,900,000. She was sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks on 25 May 1982 during the Falklands War. The principal role of these ships was to provide the fleet with mid-range anti-air warfare capability with secondary roles of anti-surface and anti-submarine. A total of sixteen Type 42s were built between 1972 and"