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Old 25th Oct 2005, 10:50
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Just wondered whether WE177 went within range of the Falklands, since the MoD admitted on 22 October that most of the stockpile ended up on Hermes and Invincible (with their better protected magazines) and stayed with them until 2/3 June (Invincible) and 26 June (Hermes). They seem to have been the only Task Force ships with Warshots aboard (excepting Fort Austin and Resource) after the rounds of transfers to them and the RFAs, though HMS Brilliant was still carrying a Training Round (NOT a surveillance round, and the distinction is drawn by the MoD paper) when damaged on 21 May.

They also made it pretty clear that neither Sheffield nor Coventry even had surveillance rounds on board when sunk (and seemed to indicate that surveillance rounds were all that they'd carried since leaving their peacetime station).

The paper is coy about the exact number of Warshots deployed, but infers at least 14, together with at least eight training rounds and two surveillance rounds.
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