When the order was given to sink the Belgrano, the British nuclear submarine began a cat and mouse game with the Argentine warship. She was sailing towards war and towards one of the most iconic battles of the Falklands conflict, an encounter that would result in the torpedoing of the first warship since the end of the Second World War. On 4 April, HMS Conqueror sailed out of the Faslane naval base to begin her 8,000 mile journey to the South Atlantic.
In the early hours of 2 April, Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands. On the evening of 30 March 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror, received a telephone call giving him the order to ‘store for war’.
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