Una busqueda en el pdf de "splashed" da 12 ocurrencias, de las cuales al 30 de mayo corresponden dos, una no relacionada con el Exocet y otra no dicha por Inskip:
In the turret, when the firing pulse came through, Petty
Officer Allen, the captain of the gunhouse, ordered another
shell in the breech. He knew the hosepipe drill; if a missile was
coming our way, a new shell would replace the one just fired as
soon as the gun had recovered from its recoil. The turret, still
in local control and not auto, wandered to starboard as more
shells were fired. We began firing towards the main body.
Seeing the danger I pressed the check fire bell, piping, ‘check,
check, check!’ In the transmitting station, the individual lying
on the trigger did not realise that he was firing the gun while in
the gunhouse, the continued firing pulse was reason enough to
reload. High explosive shells continued to hosepipe to
starboard, two falling short of an LSL (landing ship logistic).
These shell splashes were reported by the gun direction
platform as ‘missile splashed’ and this, and my continued
exhortations to check fire, eventually had the desired effect
and our smoking guns fell silent.
Petty Officer Keith Balston recorded,
Exocet heading for the ship, ‘Brace, Brace, Brace’. Oh
Exocet heading for the ship, ‘Brace, Brace, Brace’. Oh
my God! We are done for. We are all lying spreadeagled
on the deck
for the worst. Several
minutes pass. Apparently chaff saved us, quick
reaction from the ops room and by the bridge putting
the missile on ship’s head.
The missile splashed into
the sea. We are lucky once again.
Mira este anotacion el 28 de mayo:
On rejoining, we replenished stores and ammunition from
Fort Austin, again experiencing rig problems. Whilst we
replenished we heard that
Plymouth had been attacked by
three Pucaras, one of which had been splashed
Atacaron los Pucara a la Plymouth...?