The night of 24/25th YARMOUTH to take SBS to Port Salvado, having got there we find there boat engines do not work. Having made as much noise as possible we push off before some one takes a pot shot at us and return to San Carlos.
1045 Action stations
1052 Ship in 1z
1130 Aircraft 010° from ARGONAUT opening spurious
1132 Off India band
1158 Ridged Raider capsized; stop engines - SBS in the water
1209 Gunfire heard astern from shore
1212 Good lookout all round
1224 Air red
1230 Unknown closing from North at 16 miles
1232 Rapiers report possible attack from the North
1234 Classified Skyhawk’s tracking West
1236 1 splashed by COVENTRY Lieutenant Garcia in an A4 of Grupo 4
1239 Contact 060 8 miles tracking North West
1248 Air yellow
1300 CAP 030° - 30 miles
1310 Contact 350° - 60 miles
1335 Air red
1339 135° - 12 miles possible low bogies
1422 Air yellow
1450 Air red
1458 Air yellow
1528 Air red 1 splashed threat 4 raiders, ship bombed no damage, the pilot baled out Lieutenant Lucero of Grupo 4
1530 Aircraft did have refuelling probe, pilot in the water
1553 COVENTRY splashed 1 hostile
1542 One other trailing smoke seen by PLYMOUTH, flash Bootlace 060° Mirage III 40 miles
1544 Possible CAP
1545 Bootlace 060° from BROADSWORD 2 from EWO Bootlace 060° faded
1600 Rapiers will be testing shortly
1619 Flash low bogies 180° - 6 miles (from Rapier site)
1625 Spurious
1640 Air yellow
1657 Landing craft coming alongside to collect SBS
1707 Heads up West
1732 Low bogies 320° air red
1734 Unidentified aircraft 000 from FEARLESS
1735 Assessed as CAP/Dipper
1740 Air yellow
1745 Gunfire heard port side
1747 Square Leg from COVENTRY, Entendards and A4’s
San Carlos water1757 Hostiles 275° - 120 miles
1800 Air red
1810 Threat now 271° - 64 miles
1813 Hostiles assessed to have gone low
1816 Hostile 290° - 38 miles
1818 Possible two raids
1819 CAP engaging on of the raids
1821 Low bogies 302° - 100miles
1824 Low bogies 310° - 100 miles
1825 BROADSWORD under attack by Lieutenant Colonel Zini
1827 COVENTRY has been hit and may capsize - tipping over, COVENTRY took three bombs (1000lb) each COVENTRY had 19 killed, pilot who got COVENTRY Ensign Jorge Nuevo
1829 Could be waves of hostiles
1831 BROADSWORD hit by bomb aft
1835 BROADSWORD 12 miles North of Pebble Island
1837 Low bogies 125° - 6 miles CAP
1839 ARROW has bogies 125° - 11 miles
1842 FEARLESS sending out SAR
1845 Unidentified aircraft 42 miles North
1852 Gunfire heard ashore
1911 COVENTRY position 310° - 33 miles
1945 Unknown closing, friendly CAP
2120 Assume state 1
2130 Fall out
HMS Coventry Death Roll
We hear that 2 Super Entendards have carried out an Exocet attack and hit ALANTIC CONVEYOR, Captain North
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