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| 1982 | Corporate |  |
| 21st May San Carlos Water Two brigades of troops had been transported 8,000 miles and one of the most successful amphibious landings was conducted in San Carlos Water when 3,000 troops are put ashore without casualties |
| 1982 | Falklands Task Force | |
| 2nd April Destroyers and frigates exercising off Gibraltar under Rear Admiral 'Sandy' Woodward were ordered south. They were joined by the carriers Hermes and Invincible, loaded with Sea Harrier fighters as well as amphibious ships and merc |
| 26th April Admiral Woodward's task group rendezvous with mid-Atlantic destroyers |
| 29th April Task force arrives at exclusion zone |
| 19th May War cabinet gives Admiral Woodward the go ahead for landing plan |
| 1982 | Invasion of Falklands | |
| 2nd April Destroyers and frigates exercising off Gibraltar under Rear Admiral 'Sandy' Woodward were ordered south. They were joined by the carriers Hermes and Invincible, loaded with Sea Harrier fighters as well as amphibious ships and merc |
| 19th May War cabinet gives Admiral Woodward the go ahead for landing plan |
| 1982 | Sinking Ardent | |
| 21st May San Carlos Water British frigate Ardent sunk in San Carlos Water by air attack - 22 die |
| 1982 | Sinking Atlantic Conveyor | |
| 25th May British container ship Atlantic Conveyor is abandoned with 3 vital chinook helicopters aboard after an exocet missile hit sets the ship ablaze - 12 die |
| 1982 | Sinking Belgrano | |
| April Vulnerable to Argentine aircraft, both carrier and land based, missile armed surface ships and submarines Woodward's approval is given to sink any Argentine warships outside Argentine territorial waters |
| 2nd May General Belgrano sunk 30 miles outside exclusion zone by submarine Conqueror on orders of War Cabinet who claim self-defence - 368 Argentines die |
| 1982 | Sinking Coventry | |
| 25th May British destroyer Coventry sunk by air attack - 20 die |
| 1982 | Sutton | |
| 21st May San Carlos Water British frigate Ardent sunk in San Carlos Water by air attack - 22 die |
| 21st May San Carlos Water San Carlos landings begin, codenamed Operation Sutton |
