Falklands 82
Falklands 82
Falklands 82
Falklands 82
January 1982
1st - 10th Broadsword would have dormant leave. 11th - 17th recovery time. 18th - 24th Ships Maintenance Period 25th - 31st Annual Maintenance period pre deployment.
HMS Invincible seen in Rosyth either on the weekend 12th- 14th February harbour phase 15th - 16th or weekend 26th - 28th. With lots of hard work during harbour
phase, work up phase and ocean phase everyone was unaware of what was to come in the near future.
Photo taken from Broadsword after launcher deck.
Saturday 28th March
February 1982
1st - 7th Annual maintenance would finish. 8th The ship would take ammunitions and sailing from Plymouth for Weapon tests and system calibrations. 9th - 10th Weapon tests and calibrations, the ship would then passage to the North Sea. 11th - 12th Squadron operation s in the North Sea and passage to Rosyth. 12th - 14th Rosyth weekend 15th - 16th JMC 821 Harbour phase 16th - 20th JMC 821 Work up phase 21st - 26 JMC 821 Ocean phase 26th - 28th Rosyth weekend JMC “Joint Maritime Course” was the Royal Navy’s principle large scale maritime warfare excercise during the cold war. It ran three times a year (spring, summer, winter) and was designed to train RN and NATO ships in ASW, surface warfare, air defence, and coordinating task-group operations. ASW Focus - Cold war theat meant heavy emphasis on Soviet submarines. NATO integration - US, Dutch, German, and Canadian ships routinely joined. High-tempo serials - 24-hour ops, multi-threat scenarios, and live firings. Soviet “trawlers” often sat on the edge of the exersice. Pre-Armilla prep - Many ships ran a JMC before heading east of the Suez.March 1982
1st - 2nd Rosyth - Post JMC Debrief 2nd - 4th Passage to Plymouth in company HMS Battleaxe and HMS Arethusa 4th - 10th Plymouth Ammunition ship. 10th - 11th Weapon training Plymouth areas. 11th - 17th Plymouth 17th - 24th Exercise Springtrain en route Gibralter 24th - 29th Gibraltar - exersice Springtrain Harbour phase. 29th - 31st Exersice Springtrain Medeteranean Phase.April 1982
Sat 1st April 01:08 Ops Room control CASEX began (Combined Anti Submarine Exercise) 01:29 Bridge control. 01:47 Lynx 346 airborne for 2 hours and back on deck 03:49 CASEX carried out with ORACLE 14:00 Speed 20 to intercept with Coventry high seas group. 16:13 Sheffields lynx lands onboard 3 persons landed 16:16 Sheffield Lynx flew off 16:37 Coventry’s Lynx lands 3 persons 16:44 Coventry’s Lynx flew off 17:18 Coventry’s Lynx lands 4 persons 17:21 Coventry’s Lynx flew off 23:04 Brillinats Lynx lands on 23:25 Brillinats Lynx flew off.
Falklands 82
Falklands 82
Falklands 82
Falklands 82
January 1982
1st - 10th Broadsword would have dormant leave. 11th - 17th recovery time. 18th - 24th Ships Maintenance Period 25th - 31st Annual Maintenance period pre deployment.
HMS Invincible seen in Rosyth either on the weekend
12th- 14th February harbour phase 15th - 16th or
weekend 26th - 28th. With lots of hard work during
harbour phase, work up phase and ocean phase
everyone was unaware of what was to come in the
near future.
Photo taken from Broadsword after launcher deck.
Saturday 28th March
February 1982
1st - 7th Annual maintenance would finish. 8th The ship would take ammunitions and sailing from Plymouth for Weapon tests and system calibrations. 9th - 10th Weapon tests and calibrations, the ship would then passage to the North Sea. 11th - 12th Squadron operation s in the North Sea and passage to Rosyth. 12th - 14th Rosyth weekend 15th - 16th JMC 821 Harbour phase 16th - 20th JMC 821 Work up phase 21st - 26 JMC 821 Ocean phase 26th - 28th Rosyth weekend JMC “Joint Maritime Course” was the Royal Navy’s principle large scale maritime warfare excercise during the cold war. It ran three times a year (spring, summer, winter) and was designed to train RN and NATO ships in ASW, surface warfare, air defence, and coordinating task-group operations. ASW Focus - Cold war theat meant heavy emphasis on Soviet submarines. NATO integration - US, Dutch, German, and Canadian ships routinely joined. High-tempo serials - 24-hour ops, multi-threat scenarios, and live firings. Soviet “trawlers” often sat on the edge of the exersice. Pre-Armilla prep - Many ships ran a JMC before heading east of the Suez.March 1982
1st - 2nd Rosyth - Post JMC Debrief 2nd - 4th Passage to Plymouth in company HMS Battleaxe and HMS Arethusa 4th - 10th Plymouth Ammunition ship. 10th - 11th Weapon training Plymouth areas. 11th - 17th Plymouth 17th - 24th Exercise Springtrain en route Gibralter 24th - 29th Gibraltar - exersice Springtrain Harbour phase. 29th - 31st Exersice Springtrain Medeteranean Phase.April 1982
Sat 1st April 01:08 Ops Room control CASEX began (Combined Anti Submarine Exercise) 01:29 Bridge control. 01:47 Lynx 346 airborne for 2 hours and back on deck 03:49 CASEX carried out with ORACLE 14:00 Speed 20 to intercept with Coventry high seas group. 16:13 Sheffields lynx lands onboard 3 persons landed 16:16 Sheffield Lynx flew off 16:37 Coventry’s Lynx lands 3 persons 16:44 Coventry’s Lynx flew off 17:18 Coventry’s Lynx lands 4 persons 17:21 Coventry’s Lynx flew off 23:04 Brillinats Lynx lands on 23:25 Brillinats Lynx flew off.
