Chartered by the British government during the critical months of the Falklands War in 1982, and later purchased for £25m in 1983, this ship has been at the forefront of naval logistics and repair.
Falklands War veteran Tim, of St Twynnells ... like Tim - lost their lives when Argentine planes bombed two logistics ships, the RFA Sir Galahad and the RFA Sir Tristram. Tim Rees The tiny ...
Karen Edwards' brother was one of 48 men killed when the Sir Galahad ship was attacked during the Falklands War. New documents ... to send an LSL [landing ship logistics class ship] round ...
Recent books by ex-UK officers point out that most probably without Chilean support the Falklands' war would have been ... efforts to help Britain with logistics and information to defeat the ...
Dozens of families of Argentinian soldiers killed during the Falklands war will return to the islands ... The FIG is managing the logistics of the trip, including customs and immigration ...
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past?
This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the rocky shores of Steeple Jason, a distant island in the Falklands archipelago, I am awed by the magnificence ...
2, ordered the occupation of the Falklands. The British government under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded by ordering a task force to retake the islands, triggering a 72-day war that ...
A ceremony will be held at the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin supported by local and visiting clergy, with families ...