A year later, Graham returned to the Falklands with HMS Yarmouth for Force Protection patrol, spending Christmas 1983 there. was spotted and it looked as though it was heading towards us. Pebble Island. Whilst on our way there we also came under an Exocet missile Argentinas ruling military junta seized the disputed Falkland Islands opportunistically in order to score political points at home. There are who lost an arm. along with CARDIFF. On 21 May when Ardent was hit and set on fire by Argentinian Skyhawks, Yarmouth rescued the crew of the stricken ship and later transferred them to the SS Canberra. The divers went down this morning to investigate and found that there was a large chip Many of the best submarine commanders in the Argentine fleet at the time were being trained in West Germany, which forced lower-ranking and less experienced officers to skipper their boats in the most important conflict the Argentines would fight in their history since its declaration of War on Nazi Germany in 1945.2 Although the military history of the Argentine armed forces has been light, the assets Buenos Aires could apply to a south Atlantic war gave a slight advantage to an Argentine military that could, if accomplished properly, apply its forces with maximum effect on the incoming task Force. Donald McLeod, 63, joined the Scots Guards when he was 19. A Mark 6M fire control system (including a Type 275 radar) for the 4.5 inch guns was mounted above the ship's bridge, while a Type 974 navigation radar was also fitted. BRILLIANT and ANTELOPE who had just arrived about 5 mins before us. We went to within 45 miles of the shore in complete silence, no air cover or seawolf system had tripped out twice. We have been told that the Para's took goose green last night. stations at 1715 as an air raid was thought to be closing the force. A quiet day. RAS(A) was cancelled. After Sheffield had been abandoned, Yarmouth took her in tow in order to get her to a safe area. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval task force, the size of which had not been seen since the Suez Crisis of 1956. There were many problems with the performance of the SST-4 torpedoes the San Luis crew had fired. Had the Argentine naval and air forces unexploded bomb hits gone off, perhaps more than nine ships could have been sunk. In April 1970 whilst on the Beira Patrol she was diverted to be a long stop for the rescue of Apollo 13. 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.

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