Sink the Belgrano, written with all the pace and tension of a thriller, is the definitive retelling of those dramatic events.

We witness the behind-the-scenes arguments and power-broking that would culminate in the launch of three torpedoes from the Conqueror, and a vivid picture of the terror, confusion and courage that marked an attack that left 340 of the Belgrano’s crew dead. Conqueror stalked the Belgrano for two days, sometimes sailing as close as fifty yards to the warship’s stern, before the torpedoes were fired.įor the first time, we hear from sailors on both vessels as they tell their own stories of the events of that day. When the order was given to sink the Belgrano, the British nuclear submarine began a cat and mouse game with the Argentine warship. She was sailing towards war and towards one of the most iconic battles of the Falklands conflict, an encounter that would result in the torpedoing of the first warship since the end of the Second World War. On 4 April, HMS Conqueror sailed out of the Faslane naval base to begin her 8,000 mile journey to the South Atlantic. kfz Very Senior Member Thumbs up for this little one that you can pick up from the cheapy shelf in Asda about HMS Cornquerors sinking of the ARA General Belgrano (USS Phoenix), The sinking of a WW2 ship with WW2 weopens. In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands. Sink The Belgrano by Mike Rossiter Discussion in Books, Films, TV, Radio started by kfz. On the evening of 30 March 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, received a telephone call giving him the order to ‘store for war’.

Sink the Belgrano by Mike Rossiter