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Career | |
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Laid down: | |
Launched: | 1966 |
Commissioned: | |
Fate: | sunk during Falklands War |
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General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 5675 tonnes full, 3270 tonnes standard |
Length: | 125.1 metres |
Beam: | 19.6 metres |
Draught: | 4.3 metres |
Speed: | 17 knots |
Complement: | 68 |
Propulsion: | Two Mirrless Blackstone diesels powering two shafts |
Range: | 9,200 miles at 15 knots |
Armament: | two 40mm Bofors AA in two single mountings |
Aviation: | helicopters on aft platform, no hanger |
Galahad was active during the Falklands War. On May 24, 1982 in San Carlos Water she was attacked by A-4Bs of the Argentine airforce (FAA) and was hit by one 1000-pound bomb which did not detonate and strafed in a following wave of attack aircraft. On June 8 in Bluff Cove together with Sir Tristam[?] she was hit again by two or three bombs and was very badly damaged, she was involved in unloading soldiers from the 1st Welsh Guards and 48 of them were killed in the explosions and subsequent fire. Later the hulk was towed out to sea and sunk by HMS Onyx (S21)[?]; it is now an official War Grave[?].
Simon Weston, a survivor of the Sir Galahad who suffered 46% burns, had his story widely reported including a number of BBC documentaries.
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