| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 4 |
| TBA: | Captain | Anthony Shand Leslie Smith |
Last of the swiftsure class submarines built for RN at Barrow.
Launched by Lady Ann Eberle, wife of Admiral Sir James Eberle KCB, Commander-in-Chief Fleet
| 26-05-1976 | Ordered from Vickers, Barrow |
| 23-11-1977 | Laid Down |
| 05-10-1979 | Launched |
| 21-03-1981 | Completed |
| 25-03-1999 | In an operational first, the Royal Navy nuclear attack submarine HMS Splendid launched Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) against an air defense radar site in Yugoslavia during NATO operation Allied Force Wednesday night. |
| 17-07-2003 | HMS Splendid arrives at Faslane from final deployment before decommissioning. |
| 22-08-2003 | HMS Splendid paid off at Devonport |
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| Motto | Splendide audax. (Splendidly audacious.) | |
| Symbology | Magnificent or grand. | |
| Design Notes | A golden sun in splendour arising from water barry wavy of six white and a green on a black field. | |
| Additional Notes | The white and green are the Tudor colours and give a reference to the first of the name, a ship of 1597, which entered service during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. | |
| Length overall | 272 ft |
| Beam | 32 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 3500 tons (surface) |
| 4500 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | In excess of 25 knots (surface) |
| 30 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 5 21 inch bow tubes |
| Complement | 12 Officers and 85 Ratings |
| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | John Brown and Co (Cylde) |
| Build Group: | Montclare |
| Fate: | |
| Broken up at Inverkeithing in 1958 | |
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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| Official | ||
| Motto | Splendide audax. (Splendidly audacious.) | |
| Symbology | Magnificent or grand. | |
| Design Notes | A golden sun in splendour arising from water barry wavy of six white and a green on a black field. | |
| Additional Notes | The white and green are the Tudor colours and give a reference to the first of the name, a ship of 1597, which entered service during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. | |
| Length overall | 272 ft |
| Beam | 32 ft 3 inch |
| Displacement | 3500 tons (surface) |
| 4500 tons (submerged) | |
| Diving Depth | In excess of 1000 ft |
| Speed | In excess of 25 knots (surface) |
| 30 knots (submerged) | |
| No. of shafts | 1 |
| Armament | 5 21 inch bow tubes |
| Complement | 12 Officers and 85 Ratings |
| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | John Brown and Co (Cylde) |
| Build Group: | Montclare |
| Fate: | |
| Broken up at Inverkeithing in 1958 | |
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.
15 pages added or updated in the last 4 months
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