Rafts: Pledge and abnegation in the South Atlantic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798754348042)

On Sunday, May 2, 1982, at 4 p.m., in the South Atlantic, geographical position of latitude 55 24' south and longitude 61 32' west, the cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk by two MK 8 Model 4 torpedoes, launched by the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror outside the limit of the British exclusion zone. This event caused the death of 323 Argentines of which 200 were between seventeen and twenty years old.
The wind speed was 34 Kn decreasing. Dark clouds and more than 6 meters waves with torn off crests and wind direction foam trails announced the arrival of a storm; the cold and the wind made a real feel temperature of -10 C. Sea water temperature, in a place of more than 3000 meters depth as it was the place of the sinking was 3 C.
The sinking of the Belgrano takes place in the context of an undeclared war and a not very well justified self-defence by the British government due to the conflict of the sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
This story is told by a crew member who lived the last sixteen days navigation of the ARA General Belgrano, the moment of the attack, the survival manoeuvres aboard the ship, in the liferaft, the rescue and the consequences.

Author: Javier Ramos Mejia,Osvaldo Daniel Ramirez
ISBN-13: 9798754348042
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d