Revealed: catalogue of failings that sank Falklands warship HMS Sheffield
(The Guardian Argentina)

Declassified report into disaster reveals officers `mesmerised´ by sight of incoming missiles failed to raise alarmThe catalogue of errors and failings that ended in the sinking of a Royal Navy destroyer during the Falklands war has been disclosed after being covered up for 35 years.Twenty people died and 26 were injured when HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the early days of the 1982 conflict. It was the first Royal Navy warship to have been lost since the second world war. Related: Exocet missile: how the sinking of HMS Sheffield made it famous Related: South Georgia recaptured in first skirmish of Falklands campaign - archive, 26 April 1982 Related: Work starts to identify Argentinian Falklands war dead Continue reading...