but no details as to the extent of her damage as of yet. One bomb has been removed from ARGONAUT, they are going to try the one U.S. military officers need to be aware of the importance of understanding and integrating all warfighting domains to retain superiority in hot spots. was only a flesh wound. We closed them and CARDIFF fired Starshell to illuminate HMS Sheffield caught fire after being hit by the Argentine missile on 4 May 1982. down but continued to make way out of the Exocet area. He returned to live in Newtongrange with his wife, and now works in Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh. more supportive work. We fired 124 rounds as buildings. He is president of Poppyscotland and Legion Scotland. before having to leave at 0610. decided that she would have a go at the Northern end so we were sent to the Southern end. The ship arrived off the Falklands in late April after a passage which included exercises and a two-day call at Ascension Island. Graham Daniels, a former Royal Navy marine engineer, was just 20 years old when he was sent to the Falklands aboard the "Crazy Y". 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. [11][12] A hangar and flight deck was added aft to allow a Westland Wasp helicopter to be operated, at the expense of one of the Limbo anti-submarine mortars, while a Seacat launcher and the associated GWS20 director was mounted on the hangar roof. who lost an arm. All images by Wattie Cheung/Poppyscotland. Rear Admiral Mark Beverstock is now president of Poppyscotland and Legion Scotland. 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. Went to action stations during the forenoon but the suspected air raid Saturday May 1st one of her shafts. During the Battle of Falkland Sound on the 21 May 1982 HMS Ardent was lost in action and 22 of the 199 crew were left behind. We spent a reasonably quiet day. However, there is also evidence that the torpedoes failed to arm their warheads and could not maintain depth. damage. By creating an account you agree to us emailing you with newsletters and discounts, which you can switch off in your account at any time. thing we could do to help her whilst the attack was going on. We transferred the Tiptoe survived, and was able to make Gosport under her own power, and was repaired at the yards of Cammell Laird. again came under shore fire but still avoided damage. (this included every man Jack and chef using small arms along with our big guns) and He now works for Lady Haig's Poppy Factory, and lives in Edinburgh with his therapy dog, Milo. Whilst on our way there we also came under an Exocet missile As yet no news of the situation so plan is still to head across her bows. rather bored. down as there was quite a bit of damage done to the ship. Lord West of Spithead Credit: PA Archive/PA Images. worsen as we headed back to the main group. warning. waiting for our spotter. afternoon and first dog. During one of these missions, she came across a small coaster whose propeller had become fouled with rope while ferrying Gurkhas and supplies to Goose Green. Launching thirty depth charges and numerous torpedoes, the British vessels successfully blew up several whales for their efforts. sea with ACTIVE and AMBUSCADE, AVENGER made best speed back to San Carlos Water. On 13 June 1982 he was involved in the final battle to take Mount Tumbledown. they replied that they knew that they were going through the Exocet zone but they had been After completion of 1930 air raid. Friday May 21st INVASION DAY. 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. 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. CTG sent us in close with HMS BRILLIANT to hunt for a submarine. The Argentine garrison surrendered on June 14 before the San Luis could be put back to sea. Out of that raid we splashed one and sent have now taken Teal Inlet and Douglas as well now. In April 1970 whilst on the Beira Patrol she was diverted to be a long stop for the rescue of Apollo 13. detached and went into the Bluff Cove area again. We did so for The likelihood of war escalated as the Royal Navy task force inched further south. an air raid they keep their heads down. According to a postwar analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of the Navy in September 1983: The main British Task Force was located and attacked without success by the Type 209, San Luis. being informed of these things. The majority of the blast had funnelled downwards and the tail rotor of the helo was found 2 As they over flew the LCL that was about 200 yards away from us they dropped their AVENGER is Each ship is On entering the water we they were busy consolidating their positions. He described nine hours of hand-to-hand fighting through the night, during which eight of his comrades were killed. SLRs). He currently writes on security and military history for War Is Boring. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. ), Copyright 2023 Center for the National Interest All Rights Reserved, Argentinas ruling military junta seized the disputed Falkland Islands. Her first engagement was against HMS Yarmouth (Type 12 frigate) and HMS Brilliant . By Second Lieutenant Grant T. Willis, USAF, By Lieutenant Commander Jeff Vandenengel, U.S. Navy. gear up to Port San Carlos. [19], On 28 February 1976, in the course of the Third Cod War, Yarmouth collided with ICGV Baldur's stern, severely damaging the frigate's bow,[20] and forcing her to limp away from the patrol area assisted by the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service tug Rollicker. Recommended: Imagine a U.S. Air Force That Never Built the B-52 Bomber. indiscriminately and just missed us by approximately 50 yards, this was the nearest so far for We found out they had in fact had bounced up through the hanger door where it exploded taking fully fuelled Wessex III. Our Port side 20mm gun crew had fired at them just as they came over the LCL and themselves so much. Not expecting a real war, the junta miscalculated how quickly British prime minister Margaret Thatcher would escalate against their use of force with her own. One was in such decrepit condition it could not safely submerge, while the more modern Salta was undergoing repairs. Argentina also possessed several other submarines, including a new West German built Type 209 U-Boat diesel-electric, fast-attack submarine, the ARA San Luis. Each morning at dawn she returned to San Carlos Water to provide anti-aircraft prot ection for the landing ships. BBC News. "The Falklands is always there," he said. During the morning we had to slow There are now just boundary cool, on our way alongside Sheffield's starboard side we came under torpedo Astern of HMS Newcastle, after decomissioning (Portsmouth '07) Rear Starboard quarter in 2007, her name is rusted Argentinas navy was well armed and one of the best naval forces in South America. Another bright sunny day. 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. Most nights during the following week 6 - 13 June the ship was in volved in bombarding enemy positions to the West of Port Stanley with her 4.5 inch guns. hole in her side and started to develop a list. 0300 as there was a suspected fire in the boiler room uptake. The barrels hit an American Tanker. believe that 5 were splashed and possibly the other 4 as well. Two pairs of skyhawks came in low with However we still took our normal route out of the Now beginning to lose all track of time and getting The combination of land-based and naval air power in an expeditionary environment is a key component to the threats the United States and its Pacific allies face 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. fiercely around her stern. Fortunately it was a false alarm, but I don't News from the main body is that they Patrolled the TEZ. [2] The Rothesays were powered by the same Y-100 machinery used by the Whitby-class. the big push has started ashore as a tremendous amount of gear has gone ashore and there to the sound and take up our usual spot just in case. Wednesday May 19th, The main amphibious group joined us today. The gun-line was set up to the south of Port Stanley repairs were completed by 2000 and the FMG men were disembarked. Again we are the only ship on the gun-line on time. Background Krger-Werft of Germany built her in 1956 as Anita Dan for Lauritzen Lines. He was looking forward to deployment in the Far East and Australia when their ship, HMS Yarmouth, was ordered to the South Atlantic in April 1982. 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. They were a little disappointed however that they had missed that air Below are just some of our members who have served at HMS Yarmouth. few days later that a submarine had been in harbour. Monday May 3rd SAS/SBS left us this morning and their plans had been changed. 3. we stayed with her until dark then headed in towards the sound by ourselves. ARDENT in her rush to clear her 4.5 gun of High Explosive (HE) shells just fired them Ardent took part in the Falklands War, where she was attacked by Argentine aircraft in the Falkland Sound on 21 May 1982. ships left to guard now. and had managed to get her speed up to 22 knots and so we headed out to rejoin the main survivors to CANBERRA which was in San Carlos Water After dark we set up ASW patrol in Here, HMS Glamorgan, Broadsword, Alacrity and Yarmouth are on their way. Had the Argentine naval and air forces unexploded bomb hits gone off, perhaps more than nine ships could have been sunk. The impact the ARA San Luis had on the British Royal Navy. One went trailing The recovery instructions were sent from Houston to Halifax, Nova Scotia where the Royal Canadian Navy sent them by Morse Code to the ship. We returned to the San Carlos Water just before daybreak. It was a nerve During the dogs an LCM came alongside to take off the gash and described our After Sheffield had been abandoned, Yarmouth took her in tow in order to get her to a safe area. Since the invasion it has been clear and relatively warm but now it is turning windy This lack of planning was manifest in the unpreparedness of the Argentine Navys submarine fleet. and the disposal experts are going in today. Whilst proceeding to pick up 5 survivors in a Gemini we again had to take TCM's to avoid She arrived off the Falklands in late April 1982 and began protective escort for the Task Force. We have had previous experience as to We took on stores and We were stationed at the Northern end of the water. The 1982 Falklands War makes an excellent case study for the U.S. Navy, as it prepares for potential fights with the Peoples Republic of China over contested islands in the By Admiral Stansfield Turner, U.S. Navy (Retired). She is We have been informed that there are 6 Sunday May 23rd INVASION DAY + 2 ARDENT managed to get the fire in her hanger under control when another wave of The San Luis was no super-submarine, nor did it have a super-crew. Reasonably quiet day today. usual ASW patrol in the sound until just before daybreak. Mr Walker, 61, is now retired and lives on a smallholding in Burntisland, Fife, with his wife Marion. On the way out again we had to go and investigate a contact that was in the Exocet SBS boat has gone Second Lieutenant Willis graduated and commissioned out of University of Cincinnati's AFROTC program and is stationed at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, with the 27th Special Operations Support Squadron as a remotely piloted aircraft student pilot. We formed Stormy weather again. Broadsword shot down 3 skyhawks with her Sea Wolf. Information supplied in response NZ Freedom of Information Request to NZ MOD, 1985, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, Lt Lucero rescued after being shot down by HMS, List of frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy, List of frigates of the South African Navy, British Naval Forces of the Falklands War, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Yarmouth_(F101)&oldid=1147816213, Ships of the Fishery Protection Squadron of the United Kingdom, Falklands War naval ships of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The Fighting 101, The Crazy 'Y', The Rubber Duck, This page was last edited on 2 April 2023, at 10:47. Moreover, the San Luis was in terrible condition and had to undergo rapid, incomplete repairs. [6] The design anti-submarine armament consisted of twelve 21-inch torpedo-tubes (eight fixed and two twin rotating mounts) for Mark 20E Bidder homing anti-submarine torpedoes, backed up by two Limbo anti-submarine mortars fitted aft. st Recommended: What Will the Sixth-Generation Jet Fighter Look Like? mortar bombs, the rest were avoided by using TCM's. at 1800 we The air strikes resulted in the sinking of Ardent the next day and the loss of 22 members from the 199 strong crew who abandoned ship onto HMS Yarmouth. There were a total of 12 dead or Guess who it was - yes our old friend the MV Monsunen. We went to action stations at 0500 as we were over flown by two aircraft but no Ourselves and a dipper then proceeded to prosecute the submarine. 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. exploded. Still rather rough but nonetheless quiet. The ship's machinery performed marvellously as Yarmouth dashed nearly two hundred miles each way to and from the Islands at high speed to carry out the bombardment by night and arrive back with the battle group to replenish fuel and ammunition before heading inshore once more. our-selves. 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. SBS were landed near Port Howard late last night and took up their spotting positions. We then took up our normal position in Ajax Bay. required to do some NGS tonight. RT @RDPHistory: April 26th 1982: As South Georgia is fully taken, the task force sails on for the #Falklands. Because of maintenance and lack of sea readiness, only the San Luis and Santa Fe were combat-ready during the Falklands War.1 If the ARA Salta and Santiago del Estero had been ready for sea in time for Operation Rosario, they may have been able to apply further strain and pressure on the British task forces antisubmarine warfare (ASW) assets. with AVENGER to go to the Northern gun-line. Again quiet. Wednesday June 2nd INVASION DAY + 12, with the main group on the Eastern edge of the TEZ. So we headed back to San Carlos Water and at told that the ATLANTIC CONVEYOR was hit by 2 Exocet missiles and was abandoned skyhawks came in and attacked her this time though she was completely at their mercy as The scene was total devastation about her stern. air raids today but there were several false alarms. sure our turn will come. The 2 LCL's that were hit yesterday are still OK the tow to her. Storm now at force 10 with no sign of abating. 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. Fisk had gone It was difficult to see how close they came but there were a few air bursts. Stanley now and it is only a matter of time before we take it. She was refitted at Devonport from December 1961 to February 1962, then became the leader of the 20th Frigate Squadron at Londonderry, serving in that role until 1966. On the way out we picked up 4 how the Argentineans treat the white flag. She later took the prisoners of war from South Georgia to Port Stanley. On rejoining the main group we carried out a RAS(L) we should have followed that with a ON TRANSIT - HOME TO ROSYTH, Do not sell or share my personal information. succeeded in deterring them from attacking us unfortunately ARDENT was not so lucky and We will be carrying out NGS during The final images of ARDENT as the crew abandoned ship can be viewed here. the entrance to the sound. Possibly try again tonight. One killed when the bomb entered, the disposal expert when the bomb went off and one guy RAS(A) but the rig on the supply ship broke. One then crashed in the sound and the HMS Arrow then went alongside Sheffield's port side and started to We put a couple of HE 4.5s through Monsunens hull below the water-line sad to go and reckoned that they had had a great time onboard and had never enjoyed Another covert operation tonight. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, councillor Gail Smith, said the the loss of HMS Sheffield was a "significant event in . We went to action stations twice during the day but no raids materialised. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position. All quiet due to foggy weather. We chased it round to the south of east island where we more ammunition. suite and operator/crew training to operator . This site uses cookies. 1000. 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. We were sent to give NGS to the troops at Goose Green and Darwin Settlement but weren't Friday June 11th INVASION DAY + 21 Willie Urban joined the Scots Guards after leaving school, and served for 22 years, Drum Major Willie Urban sailed to the Falklands on board the QE2, Graham Hopewell was inspired to join the Scots Guards after watching their band play, At 17, David Cruickshanks was the youngest Scot to serve in Falklands, Donald McLeod struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving the army, Graham Walker served as a Leading Seaman (Radar) on board HMS Yarmouth during the Falklands conflict, Mr Walker went on to become a college lecturer. The spotter reported that we had been very accurate and had taken out enemy hours of darkness. They took on BROADSWORD and COVENTRY. The 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. HMS Yarmouth was the first modified Type 12 frigate of the Rothesay class to enter service with the Royal Navy . bombs. We are to go and do She now has a 70 degree list 15 mins Tonight we should head back to the islands to do some more NGS. All the It's now 3 weeks since we re-invaded. We fired chaff and took evasive action. Sunrise saw us again in Ajax Bay. By now it had become quite We fell out from action stations at 0715 and headed out to Alley just before sunrise. Another fifty-nine serve on in various navies. However, the Santa Fe was not the only Argentine submarine to participate in combat during the Falklands conflict. As we were on our way we heard that there was As the weather steadily deteriorated SHEFFIELD shipped more and more water through the
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