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Falkland Islands, a “So British” end of the world

2022-06-17T04:40:12.463Z


REPORT - Forty years ago, Argentina attempted a coup to take back this windswept archipelago, lost in the heart of the South Atlantic, from the English. At the end of a bloody blitzkrieg, the British flag once again flew over the capital Port Stanley, where people continue to...


As a good sailor, Christopher Locke is a bit superstitious.

He believes in the signs, at least in the calls of fate, which can be read in the wind or in the veins of the waves.

He was 17 in 1977, and had just embarked on his first boat, the RFA

Olwen,

a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the support fleet of the Royal Navy.

The crew then sets sail for a secret mission, in the low latitudes of the South Atlantic.

To dissuade the Argentines from attacking the Falkland Islands, London decided to send a mini-task force with the utmost discretion.

Signals alerted.

A team of 50 Argentine "scientists" has landed on Southern Thule Island and British authorities fear this is the prelude to a larger invasion.

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Operation Journeyman is launched.

These details were not made public until twenty-eight years later, in 2005. The flotilla then included a nuclear-powered attack submarine, the

Dreadnought,

two frigates and two…

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Source: lefigaro

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