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Old 23rd Feb 2014, 17:26
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Navaleye
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There is a book entitled "untold stories of of the Falklands Islands" which I have. It includes a first hand account written by late Captain Balfour in which he describes the engagement including the fact that they were down to seven Sea Dart before that engagement. Its available for pennies on the Kindle book store.

Hugo White went on to be C-in-C Fleet. I have no doubt that his account was nothing other than accurate as far as will ever be know. He did plug his ship with a 4.5 kill which was somewhat over optimistic as the grin and glint in his eye suggested. A good go there. As an aside Avenger was the subject of TWO Exocet attacks one of was a land based one which hurtled noisly over her flight deck on an NGS mission at about the week. Lucky ship.

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