Port Pleasant
| Port Pleasant | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | East Falkland | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 48 ′ S , 58 ° 12 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 2 km | |
| length | approx. 16 km | |
Port Pleasant is a bay in the Falkland Islands . It is about eight miles south of Stanley . The settlement of Bluff Cove ( Spanish : Bahia Agradable or Hoya Fitzroy ) is located on the bay . Port Pleasant was important in the naval battle off the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914, as the German warships of the East Asia Squadron operated out of it in the direction of Stanley.
In this bay, during the Falklands War on June 8, 1982, the British landing ships RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram were attacked and badly damaged by Argentine aircraft, the Sir Galahad burned out. The Welsh Guard embarked on the ships suffered heavy losses: a total of 49 men were killed and over 115 were burned . It was the heaviest British casualty in any single incident in the entire Falklands War.
Individual evidence
- ↑ PCGN Falkland Islands ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Sir Lawrence Freedman: The Official History of the Falklands Campaign . Volume 2, 2005, pp. 607 .
- ^ Duncan Anderson: The Falkland War 1982 . Osprey, 2002, ISBN 1-84176-422-1 .
