FALKLANDS ENGLAND HMS CONQUEROR S 48 DECOM ZIPPO 1985

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ZIPPO 1985 REGULAR BRUSHED CHROME USED. (NEAR NEW) BASE ( ZIPPO ) HMS Conqueror was a Churchill-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead. As of 2004, She was the only nuclear powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser General Belgrano. Conqueror was the third of the class, the other two being Churchill and Courageous. The main aim of these submarines was to face the Soviet threat at sea by attacking other ships and submarines, and spying on Soviet nuclear armed submarine movements. However, Conqueror was most famously deployed during the Falklands War, setting sail from Faslane Naval Base on the River Clyde in Scotland on 3 April 1982, two days after the Argentine invasion. Conqueror arrived in the exclusion zone around the Falklands 21 days later. She was ordered to scan the area for Argentine shipping, particularly the Argentine aircraft carrier, Veinticinco de Mayo. However, on 30 April, She spotted the Argentine light cruiser, General Belgrano. Belgrano was sailing South West of the Falklands just outside the exclusion zone imposed by the British on Argentine shipping. After the opening shots of the war had occurred, British admiral, Rear Admiral J. F. Woodward, ordered Conqueror to sink Belgrano. The read more

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