Hilda Murrell

She was murdered in mysterious circumstances in March 1984; she had been stabbed several times after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home, but died from hypothermia in woodland. She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who was wrongly said to have passed the order for the sinking of the Argentine ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to conspiracy theories about her death. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative ...

See also:

Hilda Murrell, Hilda Murrell - Murder, Hilda Murrell - Bibliography, Hilda Murrell - External link

Read more here: » Hilda Murrell: Encyclopedia II - Hilda Murrell - Murder

The ARA General Belgrano was an Armada República Argentina cruiser sunk, with significant loss of life, in a controversial incident during the Falklands War. She is the only ship ever sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime. The name had earlier been used for a 7,069-ton armored cruiser completed in 1899. ARA General Belgrano - General history. She was built as USS Phoenix (CL-46), the sixth of the Brooklyn-class light cruisers, in New Jersey by the New York Shipbuilding ...

Including:

• ARA General Belgrano - General history
• ARA General Belgrano - Falklands War
• ARA General Belgrano - Controversy over the sinking
• ARA General Belgrano - Later political controversy
• ARA General Belgrano - General characteristics

Read more here: » ARA General Belgrano: Encyclopedia - ARA General Belgrano

There was some controversy surrounding the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano: At the time of the attacks the ship was sailing away from the Falkland Islands. Though the ship was heading away from the Falkland islands, it had been moving towards the task force all the previous day, and had only turned around because an airstrike on the taskforce was cancelled because there was not enough wind to launch planes from the aircraft carrier operating to the north of the Falklands. The ship had in fact b ...

See also:

ARA General Belgrano, ARA General Belgrano - General history, ARA General Belgrano - Falklands War, ARA General Belgrano - Controversy over the sinking, ARA General Belgrano - Later political controversy, ARA General Belgrano - General characteristics

Read more here: » ARA General Belgrano: Encyclopedia II - ARA General Belgrano - Controversy over the sinking

In the early phase of the 1982 Falklands War, much of the Argentine navy had avoided any conflict. The General Belgrano had left Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego on April 26, 1982 with two destroyers, the ARA Piedra Buena (D-29) and the Bouchard (D-26) (both also ex-USN vessels), as Task Group 79.3. On the 29th they were patrolling the Burdwood Bank, south of the islands. On the 30th she was detected by the British nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine HMS Conqueror. The submarine approached over the following day. A ...

See also:

ARA General Belgrano, ARA General Belgrano - General history, ARA General Belgrano - Falklands War, ARA General Belgrano - Controversy over the sinking, ARA General Belgrano - Later political controversy, ARA General Belgrano - General characteristics

Read more here: » ARA General Belgrano: Encyclopedia II - ARA General Belgrano - Falklands War