MondayJune 21 Had the light carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo been able to launch a strike against the British carriers with her ten A-4Q Skyhawks instead of aborting because of bad weather and had the San Luis torpedoes performed as they were intended, the Royal Navy could have suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Argentines. He went on to serve around the world before leaving the Navy in 1990. end of the water. On one such mission the ship encountered a small coaster packed with Gurkhas and essential supplies, immobilised by a rope around her propeller and prey for enemy aircraft. [9], Yarmouth was laid down at John Brown's Clydebank dockyard on 29 November 1957, was launched on 23 March 1959 and completed on 26 March 1960. ON TRANSIT - HOME TO ROSYTH, Do not sell or share my personal information. She went along side the stricken ship in the early hours of 9 May and passed a tow. an air raid they keep their heads down. asked to see our commander at 1600. Patrolling At this point a similar type of 'flare' Wednesday June 16th INVASION DAY + 26 again and said that the troops would be very glad to have us back tomorrow night for some HMS Arrow then went alongside Sheffield's port side and started to He now lives in Ayrshire with his wife and works as an undertaker. Patrolled the TEZ as usual, we also did a couple of RAS's both stores and Went to action stations at 0010 as we approached the sound. We went to action stations at 0500 as we were over flown by two aircraft but no To maintain political power on the mainland and within the junta, Admiral Anaya returned his battle fleet to its home port at Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.3 After the sinking of the General Belgrano, he felt that retaining his remaining warships would maintain his political position to exercise leverage, rather than charge into the most significant situation the Argentine Navy has encountered in its history. He now lives in Edinburgh and works at Lady Haig's Poppy Factory. later BROADSWORD was also hit by a bomb but this passed through her flight deck and out Incredibly we saw two men climb out of the hole at her stern, from out of the The Falkland experience suggests that cheap diesel submarines could be very difficult to counter even when facing well-trained and well-equipped adversaries. ammunition and fuel. [10], From 1966 to 1968 Yarmouth underwent a major modernisation, which brought the ship close in capacity to the Leander-class. During the afternoon HMS SHEFFIELD whilst out on Air Defence picket duty was hit by an We will be carrying out NGS during Ajax Bay. . Friday May7th The vessel, which was launched in 1975 was attacked by at least three waves of aircraft. had a small fire as a result of welding but it wasn't too serious. We went to action stations at 2355 ready contribution in fending off attackers and providing spotters with a spectacle to remember for We now have a total of 7 Machine guns (GPMG and LMG) mounted at several raid closed but did not attack, one Skyhawk was shot down by the Rapier sites. We came up on the radio to inform them that they were going through the Exocet zone but ships left to guard now. Last night we left the sound and RV'd with British Elk. The entire Argentine surface fleet subsequently withdrew to coastal waters, leaving the San Luis the only Argentine vessel opposing the British invasion force. We left the sound with MINERVA and BLUE ROVER to join up with After 1945, submarine use in combat operations has been limited to Cold War cat-and-mouse, with its introduction as a submerged precision-guided strike platform. Mr Walker, 61, is now retired and lives on a smallholding in Burntisland, Fife, with his wife Marion. torpedoes and depth charges. her starboard side about 5 feet above the water line and the resulting The Falklands War HMS Yarmouth The ship arrived off the Falklands in late April after a passage which included exercises and a two-day call at Ascension Island. ARDENT in her rush to clear her 4.5 gun of High Explosive (HE) shells just fired them with her Sea Wolf as she came under attack. Monday May 3rd 4 skyhawks came from the South over the hills and up the valley. 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.. The survivors were completely shocked; they had only been in caused the Exocet missile rise as if taking avoiding action seconds later the missile struck. The captain of the Alacrity did not even learn of the close call until after the war! We set up the refuel just outside the sound. She took on more bombs and started to burn on her deck causing a 6 foot hole and a fire. mirages with cannon and machine gun fire, CAP stations got 3 and the Rapier sites took out Imagine a U.S. Air Force That Never Built the B-52 Bomber. "I don't think they see themselves as heroes but just ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances doing a job they were trained to do.". Friday May 28th INVASION DAY + 7 Again quiet. Told that the Pucaras are now attacking the troops at He described nine hours of hand-to-hand fighting through the night, during which eight of his comrades were killed. Her final run was conducted on 10 May against two more warships, firing one torpedo against HMS Arrow (Type 21 frigate) and HMS Alacrity (Type 21 frigate). 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. Patrolled the TEZ. [2] The Rothesays were powered by the same Y-100 machinery used by the Whitby-class. Out of total of 12 aircraft over San Carlos throughout the day, 7 were The San Luiss fire control system allowed it to automatically guide three torpedoes simultaneously after launch. took on two bombs. There were many problems with the performance of the SST-4 torpedoes the San Luis' crew had fired. night. Among those featured in the Edinburgh exhibition is Drum Major Willie Urban, 65, from Newtongrange, Midlothian. The missile had apparently struck the port waist and warning. Reasonably quiet day today. Recommended: Russia's Next Big Military Sale - To Mexico? Although Argentina lost the war, it had won its democracy back. At 2000 we collected a spare part for the 4.5 inch gun and dispatched at The introduction of the Royal Navys nuclear submarines to the South Atlantic necessitated the immediate implementation of the invasion to 2 April. (This first appeared in 2016. As the Southern end of the water was The ship's machinery performed marvellously as Yarmouth dashed nearly two hundred miles each way to and from the Islands at high speed to carry out the bombardment by night and arrive back with the battle group to replenish fuel and ammunition before heading inshore once more.
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