It's a long way from the United Kingdom
It's 8000 miles. It is a long way.
It took it took some time
some of them,
which were taken into military service,
But there were others
cross-channel ferries
That took time.
And then they had to travel down to the
Fortunately, we have an island
which is also British Ascension Island,
So we were able to use
Ascension
There was clearly a concern that
that our soldiers,
marines, Parachute Regiment and others
were mostly carried
And so if
either of those ships had been engaged
and sunk by the Argentinean Navy,
I mean, there was
So, you know,
that force, that naval force
And our job really was to
confirm that that there were no enemy
So we used to fly a patrol every 24 hours,
essentially maritime patrol,
making sure that all of our own ships
engaged by by Argentinian warships
or indeed Argentinian submarines
And with the capability to
to to take action
