0103 Dan buoy laid to be used as a navigation mark for the 21’s on the gun line. The Dan is in Berkeley Sound. We are carrying out a mine detection sweep as we are on the edge of the minefield - not often one gets to lay a Dan at 12 knots. There's a lot of star shell - gun fire tracer from small arms fire. The sky is alight with war.
0113 4.5 stood to
0115 Friendly helo
0124 Bootlace 262° - 75 miles, have been told 3 x type 21's will join at 0300
0126 Possible raid of 4 - 20 miles West of San Carlos
0133 Air red
0138 4.5 stood to AA 2 contacts 190° - 17 miles closing
0153 2 salvos
0156 Rapier splash 1 bogie, 1 splashed by CARDIFF, 2 others shove off
0159 20 salvos
0200 Army to move forward; we are to support the Scots Guards
0203 20 salvos
0207 10 salvos
0210 10 salvos
0221 2 salvos
0224 2 salvos
0226 20 salvos
0243 20 salvos
0247 10 salvos
0249 10 salvos
0317 2 salvos, joined by AVENGER, ACTIVE and AMBUSCADE
0320 2 salvos
0322 1 salvo
0324 1 salvo
0327 1 salvo
0329 20 salvos
0332 20 salvos
0333 20 salvos
0335 20 salvos
0347 16 salvos
0414 ACTIVE's gun defective. From the 21’s - "You did a good job with the Dan BZ"
0555 4 salvos
0600 NGS completed, 244 rounds fired
0718 Fall out
Back to the battle group. It's a rough journey - we lose 2 bridge windows and have to ditch some oil drums.
Strange old weather we're having
Ditching oil drums in rough weather
Rough weather
Battle group HERMES, INVINCIBLE, BRISTOL, BROADSWORD, BRILLIANT, EXETER, ANDROMEDA, AVENGER, ARROW, ACTIVE, AMBUSCADE, PLYMOUTH, FORT GRANGE, BAYLEAF, OLMEDA, TIDESPRING, BLUE ROVER, BALTIC FERRY, CANBERRA and SIR BEDIVERE
1605 detached with PLYMOUTH inward bound for Stanley at 25 knots, we have heard from shore that the Paras are in Stanley and there are a lot of white flags around the area
2345 Action stations
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