Originally Posted by
AndySmith
There is also the Invincible incident. One day in May, without going and looking in the log I can't be specific right now, there was a torpedo alert on board Invincible. The ship went to action stations and carried out some violent high speed turns that everyone on board at the time remember well, and say was the scariest moment of the whole conflict. It's mentioned in the commander's, JJ Black's, book. I am not sure if I can copy the text here or not without getting a ban - so I won't. I know two members of the Flight Deck crew that are sure that they saw torpedo tracks in the sea, and similarly the sonar team, I think on Brilliant, were convinced that they had heard a torpedo in the water. On the date in question, the only operational Argentine sub was nowhere near the area (as I have discussed with Mariano elsewhere). This is another yet to be solved incident. Did it happen? Was it a false contact?.....