A cracking shot. 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. The San Luis began her patrol with the intention of striking the task force north of the Falkland Islands. torpedoes and depth charges. She had been trying to tow the damaged 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. She sent down divers to investigate and found that she had lost a blade so ARROW and PLYMOUTH are still here as is ARGONAUT who is still effecting repairs. 26 Apr 2023 20:14:22 There was only one casualty on our side and that Water to unload her cargo. The main alterations were to build a hangar and flight deck for a Wasp Helicopter and to fit Seacat anti-aircraft missiles. The divers went down this morning to investigate and found that there was a large chip A year later, Graham returned to the Falklands with HMS Yarmouth for Force Protection patrol, spending Christmas 1983 there. for a submarine. A heavy swell had The impact the ARA San Luis had on the British Royal Navy. locking one shaft and then following at best speed. After much diplomatic pressure from Argentinaand recognized economic and political strains in Great Britain to cut its military spending, the junta launched its invasion of the South Atlantic archipelago on 2 April 1982. They tried a different tactic this time. [25], On 25 May Yarmouth claimed to have shot down an A-4C Skyhawk (C-319), flown by Teniente Toms Lucero, with her Sea Cat missile system, although this aircraft was subjected to the full force of the San Carlos' air defences, with other claims from Rapier, Blowpipe and ship-based gunfire. Topped up with mortar bombs from reserve. back to Berkely Sound for more NGS. It had been announced that Goose, Settlement now have the Union Flag flying over them. Sgt. Captain F6 and staff paid us a visit today. Shortly after signing up with the Royal Navy, he was asked to join HMS Fearless at the last minute after another crew member fell ill. missing and a number seriously injured. thing we could do to help her whilst the attack was going on. We spent all of the daylight hours at action stations. Thursday May 6th The missile had apparently struck the port waist and Another fifty-nine serve on in various navies. attack. Friday June 4th INVASION DAY + 14 Falklands War. He has also worked in education, editing, and refugee resettlement in France and the United States. us all alone to make it back to the relative safety of San Carlos Water in the remaining few but no details as to the extent of her damage as of yet. The outcome of the war on the land was a foregone conclusion once the contest for control of the sea line of supply was over. During her one continuous patrol she claimed three torpedo attacks against British shipping. Last night we left the sound and RV'd with British Elk. (This first appeared in 2016. We went to action stations at 0500 as we were over flown by two aircraft but no 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. Sbastien Roblin holds a Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and served as a university instructor for the Peace Corps in China. After Sheffield had been abandoned, Yarmouth took her in tow in order to get her to a safe area. succeeded in deterring them from attacking us unfortunately ARDENT was not so lucky and John Lockie LEADING COOK Served from 1965 - 2015 Served in HMS Yarmouth David Patterson AB (R) Served from 1978 - 1983 Served in HMS Yarmouth Terry Wallace MARINE Served from 1979 - 1988 Served in HMS Yarmouth Tony Jack LEADING COOK Served from 1976 - 1999 Served in HMS Yarmouth After Port Stanley had bean re-taken, Yarmouth was despatched to South Georgia, an island of glaciers and icebergs, and from there to Southern Thule to join Endurance and enforce the surrender of the Argentine contingent there. After completion of and ourselves and GLAMORGAN were heading for the Southern gun line where we were to Images of seven men who served in the 10-week war have been taken by Glasgow photographer Wattie Cheung. the tow to her. 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. then the possibility of being attacked from the air whilst totally immobilised. A week of storms followed and Yarmouth the oldest escort ship in the Tank Force rode out the weather with no damage despite her twenty-two years. On 9 November 1970 the aircraft carrier Ark Royal collided with the Soviet Kotlin-class destroyer, Bravyy, which had been shadowing the carrier during exercises in the Mediterranean and cut across the bows of Ark Royal while the carrier was launching aircraft. 2.Harper, Submarine Operations during the Falklands War.. U.S. military officers need to be aware of the importance of understanding and integrating all warfighting domains to retain superiority in hot spots. 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 . Wednesday May 26th INVASION DAY + 5 Displacing just 1,200 tons with a crew complement of thirty-six, the San Luis carried fourteen Mark 37 antisubmarine torpedoes and ten German-manufactured SST-4 wire-guided torpedoes for use against surface targets. Board of Inquiry - Report into the Loss of HMS ARDENT. The San Luis war patrol in the south Atlantic war has been marked by controversy. Apparently the communications with the spotters ashore refused to The captain beached the submarine, which was captured along with its crew by British troops shortly after. accurate. The commander of the Argentinean forces had Each ship is Its snorkel was leaky, its bilge pumps were malfunctioning and one of the four diesel engines was not operational. bombs. Bright sunny day. was moving at a great speed towards GLAMORGAN. the big push has started ashore as a tremendous amount of gear has gone ashore and there Out of that raid we splashed one and sent There was no air raids on the force today. Yarmouth underwent repairs at Chatham, where she was fitted with a new bow section. Her first engagement was against HMS Yarmouth (Type 12 frigate) and HMS Brilliant (Type 22 frigate). Monday May 17th Monday May 31st INVASION DAY + 10 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. afternoon and first dog. twisted metal. He described nine hours of hand-to-hand fighting through the night, during which eight of his comrades were killed. It was not until the following day that the most modern available sub, the San Luis, received orders at its dock at Mar de Plata to depart on a combat patrol around the area of the Malvinas. 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. stations at 1715 as an air raid was thought to be closing the force. ammunition and fuel. battery, consequently I would not like to be an Argentinean tonight. pick up some Paras from Great Island tonight. bombed and sunk with the loss of six of the crew : Groups of Ships. across to Stena Seaspread to give a quick sitrep on how things were going as they weren't There were 3 air ARDENT in her rush to clear her 4.5 gun of High Explosive (HE) shells just fired them Sunday May 2nd Patrolled the TEZ. She was rammed in the Third Cod War by the Icelandic gunboat Baldur and had to limp away from the patrol area for repairs. In her panic to evade capture she ran aground. as frightened again. raid closed but did not attack, one Skyhawk was shot down by the Rapier sites. In their place, the San Luis made do with junior petty officers in charge of many keys departments of the ship. Launching thirty depth charges and numerous torpedoes, the British vessels successfully blew up several whales for their efforts. RAS(A) but the rig on the supply ship broke. supporting fire to the Scots Guards. The introduction of the Royal Navys nuclear submarines to the South Atlantic necessitated the immediate implementation of the invasion to 2 April. We succeeded in getting lines across and Straight away she found herself in action, and on 1 May with HMS Brilliant she spent the whole day using her sonar's, helicopter and mortars to hunt for a submarine. shortly when her repairs are complete. They crew would only be able to launch one torpedo at a time under manual wire guidance. Argentina surrendered the following day. again. clear it. 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. We came alongside ARDENT to take off being informed of these things. Topped up with 4.5 ammunition and at 1600 we detached Fell out at 1245 as the During the conflict she fired well over a thousand rounds, some thirty-two tons of shells. MondayJune 21 always. rather bored. This lack of planning was manifest in the unpreparedness of the Argentine Navys submarine fleet. One Pucara was shot down by the CAP as it closed San The 2 LCL's that were hit yesterday are still OK Fisk had gone Wednesday June 9th INVASION DAY + 19 pairs. We have heard that the troops the same missile she used in both the Falklands & Gulf wars . 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. ammo dumps, and various vehicles. GALAHAD and SIR TRISTRAN. Had the Argentine naval and air forces unexploded bomb hits gone off, perhaps more than nine ships could have been sunk. Steven R. Harper, Submarine Operations during the Falklands War, Department of Operations Paper, Naval War College, 1994. hole in her side and started to develop a list. caused the Exocet missile rise as if taking avoiding action seconds later the missile struck. At midday we RAS'd with Olna and took on Avcat. We opened up with the machine guns and hit both of them. was spotted and it looked as though it was heading towards us. 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. During the afternoon we took on more refuel just outside the sound. We can reunite you with your friends who served at HMS Yarmouth and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. 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. explosion had blown a hole in the side 15 X 4 feet. We went to action stations at 0200 and moved into the gun line. Imagine a U.S. Air Force That Never Built the B-52 Bomber. Argentinas navy was well armed and one of the best naval forces in South America. doing long range bombing by rolling the bombs out of the back. The application of these assets would be hampered by political motivations among its senior commanders, and a lack of training and maintenance standards. There were no Had the weapons functioned as intended, the British victory might have been bought at a much higher cost. 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. The Enemy Below: The ARA San Luis War Patrol During the 1982 Falklands War, Fighting Along a Knife Edge in the Falklands, The Unobvious Lessons of the Falklands War, At That Very Moment, They Were Landing in the Falklands, a postwar analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of the Navy. [28], Before leaving South Thule, Yarmouth was refuelled by the RFA Olmeda on 21 June, which may have been the most southerly RAS(L) in the history of the Royal Navy. The troops ashore have now named us the 'Crazy Y'. As part of the 2nd Battalion, he was sent to the Falklands, in the south-west Atlantic Ocean aboard the QE2 in May 1982. We now have been at sea for 9 weeks with no end to it in prospect. 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.. Broadsword shot down 3 skyhawks with her Sea Wolf. more supportive work. It could swim at forty-two kilometers an hour underwater or twenty-one on the surface, and had a maximum diving depth of five hundred meters. She is Twelve minutes after firing her torpedo, the San Luis heard an explosion from her targets same bearing; however, the Royal Navy claimed no losses of any submarines during the conflict, and it is speculated that the San Luis torpedo may have struck the bottom. who lost an arm. At 2000 we collected a spare part for the 4.5 inch gun and dispatched at We now have another 3 The NGS went very well last Graham stayed in the Scots Guards for nearly 24 years, moving to the Transport Platoon, and being promoted to a Corporal. after being repaired. Here we will have a few days rest and carry out important repairs On 4 May, when Sheffield was hit by an Exocet missile, Yarmouth provided anti-submarine protection as Arrow attempted to fight the fire. She now has a 70 degree list 15 mins She went along side the stricken ship in the early hours of 9 May and passed a tow. So we headed back to San Carlos Water and at The Rothesay-class was an improved version of the Whitby-class anti-submarine frigate, with nine Rothesays ordered in the 195455 shipbuilding programme for the Royal Navy to supplement the six Whitbys. Arrived at Southern Thule during the morning and took on maps and charts by heaving line On the way out again we had to go and investigate a contact that was in the Exocet SBS boat has gone Masked by the noise produced by the fast-moving frigates, the San Luis crept within five kilometers of the Alacrity, fired another SST-4 torpedo and readied a second for launch. "The Falklands is always there," he said. In a later raid of 9 mirages we ammunition and fuel ready for the new nightly dash into the Islands for NGS. There are We then left her and sailed back to the main group arriving at 1300. Possibly 3 or 4 Pucaras were splashed. Carlos Water. She claimed to have fired two German-manufactured SST-4 antisurface ship torpedoes and one American Mark 37 antisubmarine torpedo. Stanley now and it is only a matter of time before we take it. He now works for Lady Haig's Poppy Factory, and lives in Edinburgh with his therapy dog, Milo. Dr Claire Armstrong, chief executive of Legion Scotland, said: "These stunning portraits pay tribute to the incredible efforts and resilience of those who served in the Falklands. It was worked out that Patrolled the TEZ. Troops were landed from the amphibious ships in the early hours of the morning. Sign up to get updates about new releases and event invitations. Tuesday June 8th INVASION DAY + 18 of our batteries of 5 150mm set up ashore and they will fire about 1000 - 2000 rounds per Hands to Emergency stations was piped at about with her 4.5 inch gun. She then headed for San Carlos Water where she transferred ARDENT's crew to SS Canberra before resuming her patrol in the Sound. There was a feeling of total helplessness as there wasn't a damn thought to be spurious contacts. in the dump and exploded. 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.
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