The Royal Navy and the Falklands WarL. Cooper, 1987 - Broj stranica: 384 Soldiers and journalists alike wasted no time in telling the story of the campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian invasion in April, 1982. Almost without exception, however, they are concerned largely on the role of the Army, for it was the part they played which particularly fired the public imagination, and it may be said that the role of the Royal and Merchant Navies, the abiding images of which are for many the pictures of the exploding frigate Antelope, and the burning Atlantic Conveyor, has hitherto been overshadowed by the yomping of the Marines and the exploits of certain gentleman of the press. Yet none of them would have been there at all had the Royal Navy not provided the necessary transport, not to mention air cover and bombardment support. In the book David Brown, head of what was formally the Naval Historical Branch at the Ministry of Defence, tells in full for the first time the extraordinary story of how the fleet was assembeled; of how merchant-ships from luxury liners such as the Canberra to cargo-carriers of every description were 'Taken Up Form Trade' and, in a staggeringly short time, converted to their new role. He describes the stupendous problems presented by the assembling, and stowing, of the thousands of tons of stores and equipment needed by the Expeditionary Forces and the way in which these problems were dealt with. |
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Introduction | 7 |
A Convenient Station near Cape Horn | 22 |
Scrap at South Georgia | 50 |
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800 Squadron AA guns Admiral Woodward Air Brigade airfield Ajax Bay ammunition Amphibious Antrim April Argentine Air Force Argentine aircraft Argentine Navy Argentinians arrived Ascension Atlantic Conveyor attack bombardment bombs British Broadsword Canberra Captain Carrier Battle Group Commander Commando Brigade crew Daggers damage dawn Deadweight Dimensions feet deck defence destroyer diesel engines Dimensions feet metres east embarked escorted Exocet Falkland Sound Fearless Ferry fighters fire Fitzroy flight flown frigate fuel Goose Green GR3s Gross Register helicopters Hermes Invincible knots landing LCUs Lieutenant Lieutenant-Commander LSLS Lynx Machinery miles missile mission Naval Party operations patrol Pebble Island pilots Plymouth Port San Carlos Port Stanley radar refuelling Royal Navy sailed San Carlos Water Sea Dart Sea Harriers Sea King Seacat SHARS ships Skyhawks sorties South Georgia submarine tanker target Teal Inlet Teniente troops warships weather Wessex West Falkland Yarmouth