South America & Falklands war exclusion zone chart HMS Glamorgan 1966 (1982) map

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'South America - Puerto Santa Cruz to Cabo Pilar including the Falkland Islands'


This is an original Admiralty sea chart used on board HMS Glamorgan during the 1982 Falklands War by Navigating Officer Ian Inskip. Commander Inskip was at the helm of the Glamorgan when it came under attack from an Argentine Exocet missile. He ordered a high speed turn away from the missile, which prevented it hitting the side of ship perpendicularly and penetrating the hull, instead resulting in a glancing blow. Although 14 crew members were killed in the strike, the damage caused was relatively minor and Glamorgan is the only ship to have survived an Exocet strike. Cdr Inskip later wrote a book entitled "Ordeal by Exocet". His oral history of the war, whcih refers to these maps, is online at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80013235

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Size 71 x 117 cm | 28.0 x 46.0 inches

Date Published: Surveyed to 1982. Published 1966. New edition 1982. Copyright 1982

Type: Large British nautical sea chart used on board HMS Glamorgan during the Falklands War in 1982. Sea charts such as this were working navigational aids which were commonly updated and corrected during their working lives by hand annotation and/or printed overlays. They may also feature manuscript navigational notes, comments or other markings

Author: British Admiralty

From Admiralty surveys

Publication: British Admiralty

From the Estate of Commander Inskip, Navigating Officer of HMS Glamorgan during the Falklands War 1982. The chart has "Ian Inskip Navigating Officer HMS Glamorgan" written in Inskip's hand in pencil on the reverse side.Published at the Admiralty under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral G.S. Ritchie, Hydrographer of the Navy. Crown Copyright

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. The map has manual annotations in ink, including a circle showing the exclusion zone. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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