Bluff Cove Bluff Cove (Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

: Bahia Agradable or Hoya Fitzroy is a sea inlet

Inlet

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 and settlement on East Falkland

East Falkland

East Falkland the largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, has an area of and a coastline long. Most of the population of the Falklands live in East Falkland, almost all of them living in the northern half of the island...

, in the Falkland Islands

Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...

, on its east coast. It was the site of secondary landings of the Falklands war

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 1982, which resulted in a successful attack of the Argentine air force

Argentine Air Force

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, known as the Bluff Cove Disaster.

It is near the Mount Pleasant

RAF Mount Pleasant

RAF Mount Pleasant is a military base for the Royal Air Force in the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands. The facility is part of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands...

 highway overlooking a small harbour.

On the 8 June 1982, the 1st Welsh Guards were aboard RFA Sir Galahad

RFA Sir Galahad (1966)

RFA Sir Galahad was a Round Table class landing ship logistics vessel belonging to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She was first managed for the British Army by the British-India Steam Navigation Company, before being transferred in 1970 to the RFA, part of the British fleet, .-Design and...

also waiting to be landed at Bluff Cove when Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram

RFA Sir Tristram (L3505)

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were attacked by Argentinian Skyhawk

A-4 Skyhawk

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 fighters who caught them by surprise. Both ships were badly hit and exploded in flames, resulting in heavy casualties on board Sir Galahad. Forty eight people, including thirty two Welsh Guards

Welsh Guards

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, were killed or severely wounded, many suffering terrible burns. The wreck of Sir Galahad was scuttled after the war, torpedoed by the submarine HMS Onyx

HMS Onyx (S21)

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. The hulk was declared a war grave

War grave

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. The disabled Sir Tristram was transferred to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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where she underwent a major overhauling.