They Couldn't Have Done it without Us: The Merchant Navy in the Falklands War

by JohnJohnson-Allen (Author)

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  2011

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  Over seventy merchant ships sailed in the Task force sent by Britain to recapture the Falkland islands in 1982. Some were Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels, but the majority were STUFT-ships taken up from trade-and the officers and crew of these merchant vessels, all volunteers, suddenly found themselves thrust into a war zone in the South Atlantic.