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South America: Falklands List‑class

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Couple of thoughts:

Is that all the Argentinian ships that were involved?

To keep a neutral POV should we be calling it the Malvinas War as well?

I'm not convinced on either of these but thought they might need raising.

Secretlondon 20/9/03

Well, another source I've looked at states that Argentina used a submarine (damaged), cruiser (sunk), trawler (sunk), and supply ship (sunk), which is actually less than in the article... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ugen64 (talk • contribs) .

Article not accurate

There are several omissions in this articles and also a big mistake such pointing Mirage III in air strikes when in fact were IAI Daggers. The MB339 strikes are also missing.

• According this US NAVY website  :

UK: Falklands Conflict. The casualty statistics for the Falklands data are based upon thirty-six Royal Navy surface warships and twenty-three RFA ships that participated in the conflict. Because the focus of this paper is on surface ships, submarines have been excluded from these analyses, as have the thirty-six merchant "ships taken up from trade" (STUFT) for use in Operation CORPORATE. (Note that while there were several attacks on the merchant ships, casualties were sustained aboard only one.)

Seventeen Royal Navy warships were successfully attacked, as were six of the RFA units. The rate of WIA was 0.32 per thousand strength per day, while the KIA rate was 0.22. During the period of 30 April through 16 June, a total of 1,723 ship-days and twenty-three attacks yielded a ship hit rate of 1.34 per hundred ship-days.

Of these twenty-three attacks on British warships and auxiliary vessels, sixteen were bomb attacks, five were cannon fire, and two were air-launched Exocet missiles.

• According this British site there were also more ships hits

Jor70 14:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

What a lot of meaningless statistics!. The title of the article is "British naval forces in the Falklands War", it does not claim to be a complete history. Mirages and Daggers look much alike when they are bombing you!! Dmgerrard 19:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Please make any changes you see fit. The list is not complete, and not fully annotated, your additions are welcome. Megapixie 17:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, I am not one to edit pages myself - but have been impressed by the FW stuff - I believe the RO RO ferry St Edmunds in the article was in fact St Edmund (no S) it used to ferry people from Harwich to the Hook cheers, from Orpheus — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.66.144 (talk • contribs)

According to "Sir Lawrence Freedman:The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, 2005" it was St. Edmunds with an S, what is your source? Necessary Evil 09:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Evil,

see the Sealink site:

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/BR8_Harwich.html#anchor1481876

This site states the St Edmund involvement and has pics with name painted on side

and an entry (16 Jun 82) and cool pic on the HMS Yarmouth site:

http://www.twogreens.com/navy/FALKLANDS/falklands.html

Regards

Orphy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.110.109.208 (talk • contribs)

The Sealink site is reference enough, the twogreens link is an interesting link, but not a proper reference for St. Edmund without an 'S'. When you change St. Edmunds to St. Edmund in the article, please put <ref>http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/BR8_Harwich.html#anchor1481876</ref> right after St. Edmund. Be bold! Necessary Evil 17:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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