| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | SSBN1 |
| Fate: | Paid off May 1992 after completing 56 deterrent patrols and laid up at Rosyth. |
Launched by Lady Law, wife of the Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Sir Horace Law.
Fired her first Polaris missile in June 1970 and undertook her first operational patrol the following September.
Received her Chevaline update in 1988.
| 00-05-1965 | Laid Down |
| 15-03-1968 | Launched |
| 04-12-1969 | Completed |
| 19-04-1975 | Recommissioned at HM Naval Base Rosyth |
| 04-09-1982 | Recommissioned a second time at HM Naval Base Rosyth |
| Length overall | 425 ft |
| Beam | 33 ft |
| Displacement | 7500 tons (surface) |
| 8400 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | 20 knots (surface) / 25 knots (submerged) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 16 x Polaris A-3 tubes | |
| Complement | 143 (two crews) |
The British submarine, M1 which uniquely carried the firepower of a battleship was discovered 35 miles south-east of Plymouth at a depth of 81 metres by diver and submarine expert, Innes McCartney and boat skipper Grahame Knott.
The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight. Now Mike Rossiter - with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror - gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking.
With all the pace and tension of a thriller, Sink the Belgrano takes us inside the battle for the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the famous, and controversial, Sun headline 'Gotcha!' We track the collision course between the British submarine Conqueror and the Argentine warship - as the two sides and everyone aboard head towards the climactic moment just outside the exclusion zone set up by the British around the Falkland Isles. We witness the behind-the-scenes arguments, discussions and powerbroking that led to the decision to fire the three torpedoes. And, for the first time, we hear from the sailors on both sides - the personal testimony of the hunt for and attack on the Belgrano, and from the Argentine side the experience of being under attack and the sinking that left 340 members of her crew dead.
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| Length overall | 425 ft |
| Beam | 33 ft |
| Displacement | 7500 tons (surface) |
| 8400 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | 20 knots (surface) / 25 knots (submerged) |
| 25 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 6 x 21 inch bow tubes |
| 16 x Polaris A-3 tubes | |
| Complement | 143 (two crews) |
The British submarine, M1 which uniquely carried the firepower of a battleship was discovered 35 miles south-east of Plymouth at a depth of 81 metres by diver and submarine expert, Innes McCartney and boat skipper Grahame Knott.
The sinking of the Belgrano was one of the most dramatic moments of the Falklands conflict. For many it signalled Britain's entry into the war and it has been seen as a politically motivated decision deliberately designed to take the country irrevocably into the fight. Now Mike Rossiter - with unprecedented access to sailors from the Belgrano and HMS Conqueror - gives us a dramatic and definitive retelling of the events that led up to the sinking.
With all the pace and tension of a thriller, Sink the Belgrano takes us inside the battle for the South Atlantic and shows us the human drama behind the famous, and controversial, Sun headline 'Gotcha!' We track the collision course between the British submarine Conqueror and the Argentine warship - as the two sides and everyone aboard head towards the climactic moment just outside the exclusion zone set up by the British around the Falkland Isles. We witness the behind-the-scenes arguments, discussions and powerbroking that led to the decision to fire the three torpedoes. And, for the first time, we hear from the sailors on both sides - the personal testimony of the hunt for and attack on the Belgrano, and from the Argentine side the experience of being under attack and the sinking that left 340 members of her crew dead.
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