On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: > Cotty wrote: >> On 16/4/08, Christian, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> Those things bombed the Falklands while I was living in Argentina. >> >> Interestingly, and aside from carrying the British nuclear deterrent >> during the cold war, that was the only action a Vulcan ever saw. >> > That sure is a pretty plane. > > My Falklands history is a bit murky, but I believe that during the > war a > British nuclear submarine sank an Argentine ship. This was one of > very > few ships sunk by submarine since WWII, and the only one to be sunk > by a > nuclear submarine.
... that we know about ... Give a cheer for the conspiracy theorists out there! ;-) G > Even more interesting is that the torpedoes fired by > the sub were a US design manufactured by the British during or shortly > after WWII. The ship that sank was formerly a WWII era US cruiser. > Or > something like that. I may have things mixed up a bit and I'm too > damn > lazy to look it up. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
