April 23rd 1982: HMS Endurance picks up emissions, alerting her to the Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe arriving in South Georgia, bringing 11 technicians and 9 Marines with 50 Bantam AT missiles. The order is given for tankers to disperse, leaving only Endurance on station.
And the name of Britain's latest nuclear submarine? Agamemnon! An insult to Iphigenia, not to mention Clytemnestra (his abandoned wife) or Cassandra (his slave lover). But, then again, nuclear subs are symbols of overinflated patriarchal idiocy telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…