The Veteran Issue 7
The Quarterly Magazine of the Alicante Branch of the Royal British Legion, issue 7 September 2022
The Quarterly Magazine of the Alicante Branch of the Royal British Legion, issue 7 September 2022
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Alleged use during the Falklands<br />
War<br />
During the early stages of the<br />
Falklands War, the BBC World News<br />
reported that Resolution was<br />
stationed off Buenos Aires. A similar<br />
story appeared in 1984 in the New<br />
Statesman which alleged that<br />
Resolution was sent south, as a<br />
means of launching a nuclear attack<br />
against Córdoba in the event that a<br />
Royal Navy aircraft carrier be sunk.<br />
In reality, Resolution's crew were<br />
having to deal with an upsurge of<br />
Soviet SSN activity, with Resolution<br />
having to take evasive action to avoid<br />
a November-class submarine. Despite<br />
Soviet efforts, Resolution was never<br />
found during her 72-day patrol.<br />
Les Dewson first group rear rank second from left.<br />
Polaris submarines were designed to<br />
carry, and maintain in a state of<br />
readiness to fire, 16 Type A-3 Polaris<br />
missiles in addition to their<br />
conventional torpedo armament. <strong>The</strong><br />
Admiralty believe that if the missiles<br />
were ever employed they will have<br />
failed in their purpose of preventing<br />
war.<br />
Following the completion of the first<br />
Trident-carrying Vanguard-class<br />
submarine in 1992, the Resolution<br />
class were gradually removed from<br />
service. Resolution was<br />
decommissioned on 22 October 1994,<br />
after 69 patrols, and laid up at the<br />
Rosyth Dockyard. She remains in the<br />
main basin at Rosyth, intact but with<br />
her reactor defueled<br />
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