View attachment 6974 Rogue torpedo on the range
Good old Daily Mail. There's a handy picture of a whale in the article, just in case any TAS Apes get confused again.The Daily Mail has more:
British warship HMS Brilliant torpedoed WHALES during Falklands War | Mail Online
Euryalus long ago had a Chief Air Tiffie who was much into ornithology. He told us how, on a trip to the South Atlantic, he had tried to catch an albatross with a heaving line so as to ring it. Albatross was duly snagged but was stronger than our man and flew away into the wild blue yonder, heaving line and all.
Before your time Waspie! (and before the Ikara refit). 2nd commission 1966-8.
Were they British or Argentine whales?
Dear Greenpeace
I'm sorry but I was only a killick stoker on Brilliant, and there was a sub shooting at us,
love Rog
Anyone know what a "surveillance" NBD was?
When were you torpedoed, Rog? Don't recall that one, but then again, looking on the Brilliant website I was surprised to see on 16/04/1982, the transfer of nuclear depth charges listed & didn't realise my ship (Argonaut) was carrying a training WE 177:
1st May couple of tinfish released from San Luis interesting read here http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA279554&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
Loch "whatever" must have been Loch Long.Yet another dit from Faslane, boat in loch whatever doing torpedo trials, fires one, it goes mad shoots off up side of loch and takes out a cow
When were you torpedoed, Rog? Don't recall that one, but then again, looking on the Brilliant website I was surprised to see on 16/04/1982, the transfer of nuclear depth charges listed & didn't realise my ship (Argonaut) was carrying a training WE 177:
1st May couple of tinfish released from San Luis interesting read here http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA279554&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf
The Argentinian authorities and, indeed, the San Luis own Captain have changed their "official" stories so often it was impossible for the British official historian to assess which, if any, was any were near the truth.
All one can say is that there are a huge variety of stories any one of which you are free to believe, or not, as you choose.
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