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BEYOND ENDURANCE

Book number: 91230 Product format: Paperback Author: NICK BARKER

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Captain of HMS Endurance during the Falklands conflict of 1982, Nick Barker made his first visit to the islands in December 1980. Endurance, or Red Plum as she was always called, had joined the Royal Navy in 1968 and was a listening station which assisted the work of the British Antarctic Survey. A former merchant ship, she attracted little attention in spite of carrying guns and two helicopters, but with just one propeller she was not an easy ship to control and the plan was to pay her off in 1982. The Argentinians had been laying claim to the Falklands during the 1970s and with only a frigate left to monitor the region they now saw the Endurance's decommissioning as the last remaining obstacle to recapturing the Malvinas. An appeal to the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, for Endurance's reprieve met with a refusal, but everything changed when war broke out. Information was scarce and those on the ground were often the last to hear of Argentine manoeuvres, but at the dead of night Barker daringly captained the Plum out of South Georgia through the narrow Merton Passage to reach the Falklands in a force-10 gale, only to be ordered back to South Georgia. Barker's first-hand account of the conflict has the immediacy of someone in the thick of it subjected to contradictory orders with a strong sense that everything was going disastrously wrong. Endurance contributed to the British victory, but Barker's efforts to save the ship after the war came to nothing. 254pp, paperback, maps, photos.

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