Falklands War - May 24th 1982 War Diary of Crew member of HMS Yarmouth

24th May
1034 Action stations, ship under possible air attack, INTREPID over flown by jet no CAP up
1046 Air yellow
1233 Heads up West air red/yellow
1330 Unidentified contact 150° - 50 miles
1342 Flash racket 260° Mirage, air red
1344 Aircraft 270° - 70 miles from BROADSWORD
1345 5 Skyhawks closing from the West (from army)
1346 Round Table 090°, guns engaging 4 aircraft
1351 180° FEARLESS aircraft CAP
1355 SIR GALAHAD has a bomb on board, attack carried out by Lieutenant Bono
1355 SIR LANCELOT has a bomb on board, attack carried out by Lieutenant Vasquez and Ensign Martinez
1358 Possible hostile 190° - 80 miles
1400 YARMOUTH moves to South of Sound to cover LSL’s
1401 Hostile 270°
1402 Mirage closing fast 290° - 60 miles
1404 C130 70 miles possible tac-die low bogies closing from COVENTRY
1405 low bogies from South from FEARLESS all gun’s engaging
1406 Aircraft going across stern
1408 Sea Cat miss-fire raid closing from South (CAP)
1410 Hostile closing 130° strength 2
1411 Racket mirage - INTREPID aircraft red 45
1414 Skyhawk’s flying up creek from PLYMOUTH, all guns engaging
1415 two enemy splashed by YARMOUTH
1417 Rapier’s claim 5 planes shot down
1418 Unidentified aircraft 010
1420 Heads up South from FEARLESS
1425 SIR GALAHAD may beach herself
1428 3 sand s to relieve 3 RM’s to rearm guns
1432 Land forces report raid closing from the West
1448 Hostile aircraft closing from the South CAP
1449 Low bogies 270° in the Sound disregard
1454 From COVENTRY possible round table 170°
1459 Hostile aircraft 145°
1500 Air yellow, weapons tight
1548 Gun fire heard on hills
1609 Air red
1611 Gun fire heard astern
1615 Air yellow
1920 Stand by to receive SBS
2057 Assume State 1
2103 Fall out

Aircraft brought down

3 Daggers from Grupo 6 Lieutenant Castillo, Major Puga and Captain Diaz,
1 Skyhawk from Grupo 4 pilot Lieutenant Bono, multi weapons ARGONAUT, FEARLESS, Rapier and Blowpipe