Bluff Cove
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Bluff Cove (Spanish: Bahia Agradable or Hoya Fitzroy[1] is a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, on its east coast. It was the site of secondary landings of the Falklands war 1982.
It is near the Mount Pleasant highway overlooking a small harbour.
On the 8 June 1982, the 1st Welsh Guards were aboard RFA Sir Galahad also waiting to be landed at Bluff Cove when Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram were attacked by Argentinian Skyhawk 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, were killed or severely wounded, many suffering from terrible burns. The wreck of Sir Galahad was scuttled after the war, torpedoed by the submarine HMS Onyx. The hulk was declared a war grave. The disabled Sir Tristram was transferred to the United Kingdom where she underwent a major overhauling.
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Coordinates: 51°46′S 58°11′W / 51.767°S 58.183°W
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All the above is true except that the landing ships in question were at Fitzroy Settlement, not Bluff Cove. The confusion aqrises because Bluff Cove was the destination of the Welsh Guards, which could not be reached because of the lack of landing craft-source "andyfloss" who was there.
