Malvinas War/ Guerra de Malvinas

[Navaleye]

Its Invincible. You can tell by the position of the aircraft crane. Its mounted slightly further aft in Illustrious.

 

[Griffiths911]

Navaleye

10/10!:hurray:

Now be serious about the crane from this angle.:svengo:

 

[Juanma]

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Come on ken, can't you see it?
The two pixels between the radar dome and that gray square.

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jajajaj
Vamos, Ken, no lo podes ver?
Son eso 2 pixeles entre el domo del radar y el cuadrado gris ese.

 

[Yelmo58]

:ack2:I was half a day trying to view the crane, zooming hundred times.
No way.
Guilllermo

 

[Navaleye]

I did a quick zoom on my iphone and it seemed obvious to me. The other give away is the amount of rust around the port anchor. I did get to go on Invincible a few days after her return. Apart from expected wear and tear she looked as good as new.

OK. I give up. It can only be Invincible as Illustrious was still in the UK on an accelerated work-up at that time.

I have also seen a good picture of Invincible in Puerto Groussac (Port William) out side Stanley after the end of hostilities.

 

[Griffiths911]

It is Invincible. It was taken on the day Illustrious took over command.

I have served in both ships; Invincible being the best!

 

[Griffiths911]

GC82 Islas Malvinas

I have sent the items of uniform to Argentina today. It makes me feel happy.:hurray:

I am going on vacation to Turkey tomorrow...hot sun, cold beer yeeehaa.

 

[cosmiccomet74]

Good for you!!! There are beautiful women in Turkey.
Black hair and blue eyes....

Enjoy your deserved vacations.

Regards from Taipei.

Ariel

 

[nazcasteve]

Hello everyone,

since things have gone a bit quiet on here, I was wondering if we could hear some more from any Mt. Longdon veterans out there? Would anyone care to share their memories from this battle?

Regards to all,

Steve

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Hola a todos,

ya que las cosas estan un poco tranquilas aquí, me preguntaba si los veteranos pueden contar acerca de Monte Longdon
¿a alguno le interesaria compartir sus recuerdos de esta batalla?

saludos a todos,

Steve

 

[Griffiths911]

Annoyed

I sent the items of uniform to Argentina two weeks ago by Royal Mail. They have not got there yet and I have a feeling they will never get there.

I am so upset and annoyed.

 

[cosmiccomet74]

Griffiths, we were missing you. Don't lose your hope with Royal Mailing.

Have you enjoyed the holidays in Turkey??? Nice weather in Europe at this moment.

See you around ZM.

Ariel

 

[Griffiths911]

Thanks for your encouragement. Turkey was 'different' we had a lovely holiday.

 

[Brigadas Internacionales]

Welcome back Ken!

 

[Griffiths911]

HMS Cardiff 2009, scrap site Turkey 2009.

 

[SnAkE_OnE]

wow, looks a bit rusty..hahah

it's a Batch 3? looks at least bigger than ours

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esta un poco oxidado diria..

es Batch 3? sin dudas parece mas grande que las nuestras

 

[Griffiths911]

Batch one.

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The original plaque from GC82 Islas Malvinas:

 

[gabotdf]

HMS Cardiff 2009, scrap site Turkey 2009.

Must be sad to see your ship beeing scraped instead of beeing converted in a floating museum...

 

[cosmiccomet74]

Ken, when was the HMS Cardiff decommissined???
Is any Type 42 batch one which fought in the war still in service???

There are some information about sending our Type 42 Santisima Trinidad to the Rosario port as a floating museum.
The other Type 42 the ARA Hercules was modified for Command Ship duties.

 

[nazcasteve]

Seriously Ken, don't lose hope yet with the post - I think the link to Argentina is a tad slow in general - I ordered something from there last year and it took 4-5 weeks. Hopefully in this case that is all that is happening in reverse.

 

[felizalde55]

I was 1st Radio Officer on B/M Río Carcarañá. We were shoot on may 16th, at King Port, near Isla Soledad/East F. by 3 Harriers. Do you know who pilots/sq did that attack?
Thanks a lot.

Francisco