THOUGH the lore of shipwrecks is often embellished, that of HMS Conqueror on Rum Cay often has the date, the destination, and basic historical facts reported incorrectly. It wrecked on 13 December, ...
HMS Conqueror is famous, some would say notorious, for sinking the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano. The nuclear-powered attack submarine, a type also known menacingly as a hunter-killer, that ...
The sinking by HMS Conqueror of the cruiser was the South Atlantic conflict major loss, 323 crew members did not survive Defense minister Rossi described the Malvinas War with two words, sovereignty ...
A Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine holds a unique but controversial record in the history books. Churchill class HMS Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have destroyed an enemy ship ...
Once known as USS Phoenix, she had survived Pearl Harbor’s inferno. Four decades later, renamed ARA General Belgrano, she met her end at the hands of HMS Conqueror, becoming the only warship ever sunk ...