In message , John Rumm
writes
PoP wrote:

Whether the Belgrano sinking was right or wrong, it took place at a
time when war had been announced between two nations.

IIRC war was never declared over the Falklands - hence why it was
always the Falklands "conflict" and we never struck directly at air
bases etc on Argentine soil.

Having said that I am not too bothered about the Belgrano - sail a
military ship in and out of an exclusion zone during a conflict and you
have to be asking for trouble.

(Trivia for those that have not heard it befo The General Belgrano
was bought by Argentina from the US. It used to be called the USS
Phoenix, and as such was famous for being one of the few ships in Pearl
Harbour to survive the attack in 1941 - guess its luck had to run out
one day!)

As opposed to the Sheffield which was the ship which Marconi used to
advertise SCOT and other bits of kit.


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geoff