that is still in SIR GALAHAD later today. 26 Apr 2023 20:14:22 then the possibility of being attacked from the air whilst totally immobilised. Had the Argentine naval and air forces unexploded bomb hits gone off, perhaps more than nine ships could have been sunk. On 21 May 1982 HMS Ardent was lying in Falkland Sound when it came under fire from the Argentine Air Force. This time though we were doing it all closing the force, all turned out to be spurious. Patrolled the TEZ. Ourselves and Arrow took on the survivors and we then broke away. Now beginning to lose all track of time and getting A heavy swell had Went to action stations at 0001 and within 30 minutes we were in position on the gun line However, there is also evidence that the torpedoes failed to arm their warheads and could not maintain depth. She arrived off the Falklands in late April 1982 and began protective escort for the Task Force. fired at once and a round of Chaff from the gun. Back in the old familiar spot' again. end of the water. how the Argentineans treat the white flag. We then did a RAS with Olmeda. This left Went to action stations during the dogs, Moved in towards Bluff Cove again tonight, South-West of Stanley. Topped up with mortar bombs from reserve. more ammunition. We are back in Bomb Alley. You've read 1 out of 5 free articles of Naval History this month. On the way out we picked up 4 The Royal Navy survived and the cuts to its capabilities and size ended because of the kinetic display of its importance to maintain Britains international power. Falklands War. 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. Falklands War: It was like. SLRs). However, after 29 hours the winds rose to gale force and . We now have He described the war as "90% boredom and 10% sheer terror". guys with all their gear for a covert operation in the Port Salvador area tonight these guys David Cruickshanks, from Glenrothes, Fife, was the youngest Scot to serve in the Falklands. The following day, the San Luis was ordered to sail for the waters around the disputed islands, and was authorized on the twenty-ninth to fire on any British warships it encountered. She was rammed in the Third Cod War by the Icelandic gunboat Baldur and had to limp away from the patrol area for repairs. Sunday June 13th INVASION DAY + 23 In a later raid of 9 mirages we Arrived in the TEZ (Total Exclusion Zone). quickly as possible then headed back towards the main group again. tonight. Took the prisoners from Southern Thule into Port Stanley. The rest of the day was very quiet. The famous last words. [21][22] The heavy damage and pressure on the defense budget saw HMS Yarmouth offered to the RNZN later in 1976, but the offer was rejected on account of the frigate's age.[23]. with her 4.5 inch gun. During the dogs an LCM came alongside to take off the gash and described our required to do some NGS tonight. Thursday May 6th we stayed with her until dark then headed in towards the sound by ourselves. Thursday June 3rd INVASION DAY + 13 Fortunately it was a false alarm, but I don't Went to action stations twice. The Argentine submarine service would need to combine with its fleet assets and comrades in the Air Force and naval air arm to attempt to cut Britains life blood to successfully retake the Falklands in an amphibious assault. Took 3 big dippers in with us. refuel just outside the sound. The main alterations were to build a hangar and flight deck for a Wasp Helicopter and to fit Seacat anti-aircraft missiles. In the Ourselves and HMS ARROW were By 14 June 1982, the Union Jack flew over Port Stanley once again while the Argentine garrison under command of General Menendez surrendered. Object description The sinking of the Royal Navy frigate HMS ARDENT. HMS ARDENT on fire, with HMS YARMOUTH alongside, after being attacked for the first time in San Carlos Water by the Argentine Air Force on 21 May 1982. us all alone to make it back to the relative safety of San Carlos Water in the remaining few We are to go and One pair came in from the South-West and He now lives in Ayrshire with his wife and works as an undertaker. Carlos Water. There was a total of 14 aircraft attacked us in 3 waves. ASW patrol off the mouth of the sound until 1000. onboard and it has blown a hole in the bottom of her. torpedoes and depth charges. There are only 4 The rest of the crew were evacuated successfully. Patrolled the TEZ. Patrolling CTG sent us in close with HMS BRILLIANT to hunt All images by Wattie Cheung/Poppyscotland. Stanley now and it is only a matter of time before we take it. That submarine was at sea, and at times in the area of the British force, for an estimated 36 days. have now taken Teal Inlet and Douglas as well now. LCVP back but had a hawser round her prop. We were given the Northern part of the water to protect again along with rather bored. We have had previous experience as to HMS Ardent was the seventh Royal Navy Type 21 frigate and entered service in October 1977. Brian Hanrahan who is in one of the RFA's here was describing Pebble Island. On May 1, the San Luis 's passive sonar detected the HMS Brilliant and Yarmouth, both specialized antisubmarine frigates. screw. landing ships in San Carlos Water. We did so for of our batteries of 5 150mm set up ashore and they will fire about 1000 - 2000 rounds per [24], In the early hours of 23 May, along with Brilliant, she intercepted and engaged the Argentine coaster ARA Monsunen with her 4.5" guns west of Lively Island; the coaster evaded capture by running aground at Seal Cove. New photographs of Scottish veterans of the Falklands War have been released to mark 40 years since the end of the conflict. One killed when the bomb entered, the disposal expert when the bomb went off and one guy at 1855 we went into action stations as there was an air raid closing, it turned out that During the afternoon we took on more after being repaired. when we were attacked by 3 mirage jets. The final images of ARDENT as the crew abandoned ship can be viewed here. through it recently and had not been threatened so they did not think that there was any As we were on our way we heard that there was JOB DONE! Since the invasion it has been clear and relatively warm but now it is turning windy Board of Inquiry - Report into the Loss of HMS ARDENT. Port Stanley should be ours in a few days. She is dropped the sea-boat on to the rocks and had holed it but it returned OK. Another 26 knot along with CARDIFF. During the conflict, Great Britain lost six ships from bombs and missiles launched or dropped by Argentine land-based strike aircraft. decided that she would have a go at the Northern end so we were sent to the Southern end. Repairs continuing as we drift in the vicinity of Stena Seaspread. The San Luiss crew, for its part, thought they had been fired upon by a British submarine on May 8, and after taking evasive maneuvers, launched a Mark 37 torpedo against an undersea contact. "The Falklands is always there," he said. After a tow of some 29 hours and 150 It was difficult to see how close they came but there were a few air bursts. channel was made all the more difficult by the ships that were anchored there, all in all it was The South China Sea, western Pacific, and waters of the Persian Gulf may provide future opportunities for diesel electrics, along with more modern SSNs, to demonstrate the importance of maintaining well-oiled ASW, logistics, maintenance, and early-warning procedures in peacetime to prepare for possible encounter actions and wider-ranged conflicts. possible to give the guys ashore the best opportunities to get as far as possible. HMS Yarmouth was the first modified Type 12 frigate of the Rothesay class to enter service with the Royal Navy . Once again the 4.5 mark 8 gun had problems and We immediately opened up with everything we had It was originally intended to fit a twin 40 mm L/70 Bofors anti-aircraft mount aft, but in 1957 it was decided to fit the Seacat anti-aircraft missile instead. Guess who it was - yes our old friend the MV Monsunen. in the dump and exploded. CNO Admiral Thomas B. Hayward found himself in the Argentine capital when the Falklands War began on 2 April 1982. 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. Storm now at force 10 with no sign of abating. 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. turned out to be spurious again. Lancelot, Sir Geraint, Sir Percival. The threat from Argentine submarines was a continuous concern for the British Task Force commander, and numerous attacks were made against suspected submarine contacts, with a large number of ASW weapons being expended. No air raids today. The older Santa Fe inserted frogmen to assist in the initial invasion on April 2. Many who study the 1982 Falklands War understand the exploits of the ARA Santa Fe, . In the last action of the conflict, Yarmouth and HMS Endurance recaptured the South Sandwich Islands. believe that 5 were splashed and possibly the other 4 as well. HMS Arrow then went alongside Sheffield's port side and started to Saturday May 1st We will always remember them. As the Southern end of the water was It was April 1982, and the crew of Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield . ARROW and PLYMOUTH are still here as is ARGONAUT who is still effecting repairs. GLAMORGAN had been bounced by Argentinean aircraft and had sustained some minor hole in her side and started to develop a list. We made a He described nine hours of hand-to-hand fighting through the night, during which eight of his comrades were killed. SBS were landed near Port Howard late last night and took up their spotting positions. ARGONAUT had been towed into San Carlos Water by PLYMOUTH. 4 skyhawks came from the South over the hills and up the valley. exploded. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position. learned that the Argentinean Cruiser, the General Belgrano was sunk by one of our for a submarine. ammunition and fuel. to patrol the TEZ. the rapiers. rough and without our stabilisers it was rather unpleasant. illuminated it with starshell. [18][19] A few days later, the tanker Esso Chile suffered an explosion off Malta which had killed one and injured two of the tanker's crew. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched a naval task force, the size of which had not been seen since the Suez Crisis of 1956. However, after 29 hours the winds rose to gale force and Sheffield finally sank on 10 May at 7 am. Spent the day patrolling the Eastern part of the TEZ. A Type 993 surface/air-search radar replaced the existing Type 293Q radar, while the ship's defences were enhanced by the addition of the Corvus chaff rocket dispenser. We took Sheffield in tow just after midnight and headed due East at about 6 knots. British ships and helicopters began reporting sonar contacts and periscope sightings everywhere, and launched nine torpedoes in waters the San Luis never even ended up approaching. Each morning at dawn she returned to San Carlos Water to provide anti-aircraft prot ection for the landing ships. Tuesday May 4th The machinery was rated at 30,000 shaft horsepower (22,000kW), giving a speed of 29.5 knots (33.9mph; 54.6km/h). We later heard that they were very successful and destroyed 11 planes, an The 4 Mirages were bounced by two of our harriers that were on a Incredibly we saw two men climb out of the hole at her stern, from out of the HMS Endurance was a Royal Navy ice patrol vessel that served from 1967 to 1991. He went on to join the Royal Navy Submarine Service, serving 37 years and being promoted to Rear Admiral. He was sent to the Falklands as part of 5 Infantry Brigade aboard the QE2 and remembers bitterly cold conditions and barren landscapes reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands. submarines, HMS Conqueror (Mark 8 Tigerfish Torpedo from No1 tube). We have been told that the Para's took goose green last night. The Battle for the Falklands - 40 Years On (Pt 2; June 1982) Updated: Mar 30 3 Commando Brigade forward base established at Teal Inlet 1st June 1982 In preparation for major engagements, 42, 45 Commandos and 3 Para begin patrolling areas in vicinity of planned objectives and conducting reconnaissance . closed ARDENT to offer assistance. Some air raids today but were seen off by the cap stations. ARROW and GLAMORGAN were in company, ARROW was going to the Northern gun line He has also worked in education, editing, and refugee resettlement in France and the United States. These hits and sinkings are nonetheless remarkable considering the lack of training or knowledge of antishipping tactics for the Argentine pilots who flew against these heavily defended vessels. suite and operator/crew training to operator . Sunday May 9th was only a flesh wound. Landed the NGLO and a marine on Cook Island. Not only did the San Luis return home unscratched by the more than two hundred antisubmarine munitions fired by British warships and helicopter, but it twice ambushed antisubmarine frigates. Yet again, the wires of the SST-4 cut out shortly after launch. rounds in total. damaged LCU. We now have another 3 It was worked out that asked to see our commander at 1600. AB (S) Derek Armstrong Lt Cdr Richard Banfield AB (S) Andrew Barr POAEM (M) Peter Brouard CK Richard Dunkerley ALCK Mick Foote MEM (M)2 Stephen Ford ASTD Shaun Hanson AB (S) Sean Hayward gun-line until 0330 then we headed back out to the main group. The deployment was covered in the press as "the return of the Crazy Y", a nickname gained due to the crew's daring endeavours in thwarting air attacks and coming to the aid of ships in distress. After two days of maintenance in the repair area, she returned to bombardment duties beginning on 6 June. There are many possible counterfactuals that could result in the defeat of a British attempt to retake the islands, but the struggle was decided by men willing to put forth extraordinary effort despite difficult terrain, weather, and long distances. 2023 BBC. Patrolled the TEZ. We were to tow her out of the TEZ and then rendezvous with the tug Salvageman to transfer force as Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) picket. Went to avoiding action. The outcome of the Falklands War would have been very different if the San Luis torpedoes had run and hit properly can only be speculated. She then headed for San Carlos Water where she transferred ARDENT's crew to SS Canberra before resuming her patrol in the Sound. the TEZ for two days and had not expected it to be anything like it was. Whenever there is However, some accounts state the torpedo actually struck a decoy being towed by HMS Arrow, but failed to detonate. During one such attack in the afternoon, Ardent was hit and set on fire. For the next four days of foggy weather Yarmouth remained with the carrier group, before being; despatched to take the still floating, Sheffield in tow. During the morning we had to slow He told Daily Star Online he had to be "dragged off the bow" by his crew as HMS Ardent foundered off the Falklands on May 22, 1982. During the afternoon HMS SHEFFIELD whilst out on Air Defence picket duty was hit by an on her deck causing a 6 foot hole and a fire. During the Falklands War, Yarmouth took part in the only ship to ship engagement of the war, when she and HMS Brilliant shelled the Argentine coaster ARA Monsunen. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Admiral Anaya and his staff had put together the plan to launch the invasion and presented this to the junta and General Leopoldo Gualtieri for approval in 1981. The SBS/SAS raid on Port Salvador had to be cancelled due to duff gear. lucky. service this morning. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, councillor Gail Smith, said the the loss of HMS Sheffield was a "significant event in . area. one was smoking as it flew past and the pilot ejected as he passed our quarterdeck. Saturday May 22nd INVASION DAY + 1 Tonight we should head back to the islands to do some more NGS. Yarmouth's helicopter flew a doctor over to Esso Chile and ferried the wounded to shore for further medical treatment. down but continued to make way out of the Exocet area. Here's What You Need To Remember:Real submarine warfare has been, thankfully, extremely rare since World War II. They tried a different tactic this time. Captain Salt of Sheffield, gave the order to abandon ship as the fire had come to within 12 We then left her and sailed back to the main group arriving at 1300. to the sound and take up our usual spot just in case. [11][14], On 13 July 1965 she collided with the submarine Tiptoe, 10 miles south east of Portland Bill. We took on stores and ourselves and Arrow. This dash down the Graham Hopewell, 59, originally from Glasgow, was inspired to join the Scots Guards as a teenager drummer after seeing their band play for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Four decades since the Royal Navy ship he . The. air raids managed to get as far as San Carlos Water. attack. 1930 air raid. We ARDENT managed to get the fire in her hanger under control when another wave of 2.1 Marines in Operation Enduring Freedom (Late 02-Early 03) Circa 1982 (Falklands War) . At 1400 We now have a problem with the starboard BLUE ROVER, BALTIC FERRY, ATLANTIC CAUSEWAY, and NORLAND. Wednesday June 2nd INVASION DAY + 12, with the main group on the Eastern edge of the TEZ. she did even opened fire on the attacking planes. We picked up the Paras using our sea boat during the early hours. sure our turn will come. Below are just some of our members who have served at HMS Yarmouth. Yet, benefiting from a competent commander using ordinary tactics, it still managed to run circles around a dozen antisubmarine frigates from one of the most capable navies in the world, and might easily have sunk several warships had its torpedoes functioned as intended. 1.2 Crew; 2 1983-present. Topped up with 4.5 ammunition and at 1600 we detached Ardent took part in the Falklands War, where she was attacked by Argentine aircraft in the Falkland Sound on 21 May 1982. Donald McLeod, 63, joined the Scots Guards when he was 19. After Sheffield had been abandoned, Yarmouth took her in tow in order to get her to a safe area. All quiet due to foggy weather. A total of 255 British servicemen, 649 Argentine military personnel and three civilians were killed after Argentina invaded the British overseas territory in 1982. Suggestively, AEG implemented numerous upgrades to the torpedo after the Falklands conflict. warning. Saturday June 12th INVASION DAY + 22 the Darwin settlement area. 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). We fired 244 rounds and our fire was extremely We transferred various stores and then brought on the FMG Troops were landed from the amphibious ships in the early hours of the morning. (Bomb Alley) escorting Europic Ferry in with us. The shock and damage to Argentine national pride resulted in the return of democracy to Buenos Aires and a rejection of military rule, and the governments prosecution of the Dirty War, or reign of terror against dissidents of the juntas regime. After refusing to stop when asked we fired several warning shots another away smoking, and COVENTRY who was out on picket duty to the North of the We fired a total of 296 rounds destroying Supply dumps, Troop enhancements Argentinean troops that have been on Southern Thule for 5 years. ARDENT in her rush to clear her 4.5 gun of High Explosive (HE) shells just fired them The missile had apparently struck the port waist and Their engines on radar and we then closed. On our way out we came across an Apparently the communications with the spotters ashore refused to under shore fire. Here, HMS Glamorgan, Broadsword, Alacrity and Yarmouth are on their way. and Radar installations. flames; I still don't know how they managed to do it. No air raids today. 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. Andy Stephenson. Although Argentina lost the war, it had won its democracy back. We went to within 45 miles of the shore in complete silence, no air cover or Demoralized, Azcueta radioed home that the torpedoes were useless, and he received permission to return to base, which he accomplished on May 19. Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword and Rothesay-class frigate HMS Yarmouth : 59. . We spent another uneventful day with the main group. Background Krger-Werft of Germany built her in 1956 as Anita Dan for Lauritzen Lines. to do NGS. fuel. She took on more bombs and started to burn ammo dump and several radar installations. We came up on the radio to inform them that they were going through the Exocet zone but Wednesday June 16th INVASION DAY + 26 As she was no longer a threat BROADSWORD returned to the main group to refuel. Moved in to TRALA this morning and RV'd with Stena Seaspread, the repair ship. with her Sea Wolf as she came under attack. We are to proceed to the South Sandwich Islands to remove some 456 was airborne at the time and saw the attack on ARGONAUT and reported that 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. Includes memorial details. down as there was quite a bit of damage done to the ship. A year later, Graham returned to the Falklands with HMS Yarmouth for Force Protection patrol, spending Christmas 1983 there. rope he nicked out of the chain store he was whistling away to himself so he must be happy, The divers went down this morning to investigate and found that there was a large chip splashed. The final surrender of the war, in the South Sandwich Islands, took place aboard Endurance . Fisk had gone (this included every man Jack and chef using small arms along with our big guns) and As a young boy, Graham Daniels was fascinated by his uncle's stories . (This first appeared in 2016. Ardent was lost in action on the 21 May 1982 during the Falklands War. needed. no warning. It is significant, however, that these attacks and ASW battles took place. On rejoining the main group we carried out a RAS(L) we should have followed that with a st Saturday June 5th INVASION DAY + 15 themselves so much. Communications in the Indian Ocean were very poor. The missile missed us, passing in front of our On 19 May, the amphibious landing group arrived, joined the Task Force and headed West to the Falkland Sound. We came alongside ARDENT to take off 1000. The Royal Navy hero said the sinking of his ship changed him - and . We took on two sections of SBS and NGS spotters tonight. It seems as though at 1800 we They feature in an online exhibition ahead of a national remembrance parade and service in Edinburgh on Saturday. We chased it round to the south of east island where we Not a bad little haul for some 500 Paras. She claimed to have fired two German-manufactured SST-4 antisurface ship torpedoes and one American Mark 37 antisubmarine torpedo. Went to action We then carried on back to the main group arriving there at about 1200. All these factors coincided with the fact that the British had little to no early-warning aircraft and had to rely on special forces, submarines, and ships onboard radar to pick up low-flying incoming aircraft. SAS/SBS left us this morning and their plans had been changed. The air strikes resulted in the sinking of Ardent the next day and the loss of 22 shipmates from the 199 strong crew who abandoned ship onto HMS Yarmouth. early hours of the morning we set up the gun line and then under their direction we proceeded From the information now received from BROADSWORD it seems that they In the early hours of the morning we were detached with BROADSWORD to intercept an War at sea may seem a thing of movies with calm and calculating skippers piercing through the periscope, like hunters stalking their prey on the high seas, but wars such as the Falklands still display the key role submarines, and their intrepid crews can play in modern warfare. Its commander, Frigate Captain Fernando Azcueta, was a submarine veteranbut did not have much experience with the Type 209 model. and cloudy. Two Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers fed steam at 550 pounds per square inch (3,800kPa) and 850F (454C) to two sets of geared steam turbines which drove two propeller shafts, fitted with large (20 feet (6.1m) diameter) slow-turning propellers. escort. before having to leave at 0610. Sunday May 2nd high speed dash through the narrow part of the sound. some time at various targets selected for us by our spotter. A Royal Navy task force managed to beat off heavy air attacks to take back the South Atlantic archipelago from Argentine troops. Lots of activity ashore at the moment. RT @RDPHistory: April 26th 1982: As South Georgia is fully taken, the task force sails on for the #Falklands. body and stayed on the Eastern edge of the TEZ. Again quiet. 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.. "They encourage us to reflect on the sacrifices they made 40 years ago and remember those who paid the ultimate price. ANTELOPE just pointing above the waterline. We returned to the San Carlos Water just before daybreak. pick up some Paras from Great Island tonight. worsen as we headed back to the main group. Ajax Bay. As they over flew the LCL that was about 200 yards away from us they dropped their "I don't think they see themselves as heroes but just ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances doing a job they were trained to do.". formation. the same missile she used in both the Falklands & Gulf wars . damage. ON TRANSIT - HOME TO ROSYTH, Do not sell or share my personal information. The attacks were poor, but the fact that the San Luis could make these approaches against the best of the Royal Navy shows how different the outcome could have been if the San Luis had been fully provisioned and prepared for combat operations. Birthday! attack where we had shot down the aircraft as they were down below sleeping at the time. Took up the usual position at the Southern air raids today but there were several false alarms. Still better safe than sorry. We then steamed back to the main group at 27 knots. gun fire and will therefore have punctured fuel tanks and as they are at the extreme range of caused the Exocet missile rise as if taking avoiding action seconds later the missile struck. After the Belgrano sank, the remainder of the Argentine fleet set a new course for its home base in Mar del Plata, fearing further attack by Royal Navy nuclear submarines and losses of further capital ships that could damage the juntas prestige and limited assets. For Kenny Duffy, 63, from Largs, Ayrshire, the sea was always part of his life, and he joined the Royal Navy shortly after his 16th birthday. an air raid they keep their heads down. smoke and the other was seen to be loosing fuel. moment as she had all the shore support facilities on board her. In 1982, the submarine would take to the seas yet again to sink enemy warships in conventional battle, but these subs were not fighting on behalf of the two superpowers of the era.
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