HMS Conqueror, a Royal naval
hunter-killer submarine, returns after the Falklands War, after the
sinking of the Argentine heavy cruiser General Belgrano. Naval art by
maritime artist Robert Barbour.
The Conqueror Returns by Robert Barbour.
During the Falklands War the HMS Conqueror shadowed the Argentine Heavy
Cruiser, General Belgrano and her two escort destroyers. On 2nd May 1982,
she launched a salvo of torpedoes, two of which scored hits, causing
sufficient damage to the warship to sink with the loss of 321 of her crew.
The painting depicts the conqueror on her final leg of her return to
Faslane in July 1983, as she passes through the Rhu narrows and enters the
Gareloch. Following an RN submarine service tradition she flies the Jolly
Roger.
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