Dark Seas The Submarine That Almost Sparked WW3 Posted: April 25, 2025 | Last updated: April 25, 2025 In the quiet of the Barents Sea, HMS Conqueror, a Churchill-class nuclear submarine, silently ...

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The 43-year-old Belgrano was sunk in the South Atlantic at mid afternoon on 2 May 1982 by two torpedoes fired from the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, with the loss of 323 lives.

With the breakdown in communications, there was a risk that the two British nuclear submarines might mistake each other for enemies. Instead, HMS Conqueror was ordered to sink the Belgrano ...

Woodward, who had spent much of his career in submarines, felt he should have ... navy and signalled his frustration by ordering HMS Conqueror to attack the Belgrano, which he had no authority ...