4th April 1982 - The Fleet Begins to Assemble

4th April 1982, and while the US desperately tries to convince Argentine to withdraw forces and seek a purely diplomatic colution to the Falklands Crisis, preparations are underway to very hastily refit and restore a British fleet that has been on exercise in the Mediterranean for deployment to the harsh winter seas of the South Atlantic

No mean eat for ships that are in need of extensive work and repair and fitted out for temperate weather and peacetime exercise

The vanguard of the taskforce, in the form of the Churchill Class Nuclear Submarine 'Conqueror' sets sail from France to enetually take station off the Falkland Islands initially for the purpose of reconnaisance and especially to discover the whereabouts of the ARA Carrier Veinticinco de Mayo

 

 Picture is the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in 1985 shortly after the war