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...years-that gives it a terrible stateliness. Ships go down slowly. The people on them die twice: once when hit, once when drowning. They give you time to consider their faces, time to imagine what it was like on that cruiser or destroyer, after the sides of the vessel were punctured and there was a scrambling for rafts and then a silence. A touch of World War II as well: high waves, black water. Memory mingles with imagination. Easy to visualize, the war seems larger than...
...number of known survivors rose to about 800. But the strike against the cruiser was as much a psychological shock as a military one. The Belgrano was the second largest ship in the Argentine navy, behind the 39-year-old aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo. Loss of the vessel was a substantive blow to Argentine prestige. Moreover, the decision to sink the Belgrano outside the 200-mile blockade constituted a sharp escalation of the fighting and an abrupt change from the "minimal use of force" concept...
...well as the Belgrano, the Argentines announced-mistakenly it turned out-that yet another navy vessel had been lost. According to Buenos Aires, a dispatch ship, the Sobral, had been fired on by British missile-carrying Lynx helicopters as it searched for a downed Canberra bomber crew within the 200-mile zone. The British said that the Sobral and another Argentine boat had been hit and at least one sunk. A day later, the Sobral limped back into the Argentine port of Deseado with eight dead crewmen...
...captain of the Sheffield from 1976 to 1978. There was another irony. While the Sheffield was being built at Barrow-in-Furness, England, a part of her hull was damaged in an industrial explosion. An identical type of destroyer, the Hercules, was being constructed alongside the damaged vessel, and the prospective owners, the Argentine government, generously offered to give the hull section intended for their ship to the British. The Hercules and a sister ship, Santisima Trinidad, are now the most modern vessels in the Argentine fleet...
...incident." The British gave no further details but announced an investigation.) The British promised to return their Argentine prisoners to the mainland. In a gesture of civility uncommon in modern warfare, the commanders of the Santa Fe and the Argentine garrison were entertained at dinner aboard a task-force vessel following the victory. The Argentines, according to Royal Marines Spokesman Donkin, expressed "their gratitude for the humanity" of their captors...