Onyx and other ships at Birkenhead in 2005
RFA Sir Galahad (1966)
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RFA Sir Galahad was a Round Table-class landing ship logistics vessel belonging to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary of the United Kingdom. The ship saw service in the Falklands War of 1982, where she was bom
HMS Onyx (S21)
…damaged the SBS had been embarked to attack a mainland airfield but this operation, too, was cancelled. Postwar, Onyx sank the hulk of the landing ship RFA Sir Galahad with a Mk 8 Torpedo after firing two Mk 24 Tigerfish, the second Tigerfish, after a ten-minute delay, at the hulk; both failed to explode probably due…
RFA Sir Galahad in 1979
Sir Galahad's bell in The Falkland Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne, Berks