Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: >> 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. > > ... that we know about ... > > Give a cheer for the conspiracy theorists out there! ;-)
Hurray! > > G > >> 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. > > OK. I looked it up. The US and the British both had 21" Mark VIII torpedoes designed in the 1920s. The British submarine fired Mark VIII Mod 4 torpedoes at the Belgrano. But the US torpedo looks like it was designed to be launched from the deck of a surface vessel. I can't find anything to suggest that these torpedoes are related, though I swear I read once that those used during the Falklands War were an American design. -- Scott 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.
