Cotty wrote: > On 16/4/08, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> Those things bombed the Falklands while I was living in Argentina. > > Interestingly, and aside from carrying the British nuclear deterrent > during the cold war, that was the only action a Vulcan ever saw. > That sure is a pretty plane.
My Falklands history is a bit murky, but I believe that during the war a British nuclear submarine sank an Argentine ship. This was one of very few ships sunk by submarine since WWII, and the only one to be sunk by a nuclear submarine. Even more interesting is that the torpedoes fired by the sub were a US design manufactured by the British during or shortly after WWII. The ship that sank was formerly a WWII era US cruiser. Or something like that. I may have things mixed up a bit and I'm too damn lazy to look it up. -- Scott "Silas Duncan is my hero" Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
