Which British submarine sunk the General Belgrano during the Falklands War in 1982?
HMS Conqueror (S48) HMS Conqueror (S48) HMS "Conqueror" was a British nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990. She was the third submarine of her class, following the earlier and , that were all designed to face the Soviet threat at sea. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. "Conqueror" the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the cruiser "General Belgrano" during the 1982 Falklands War. "Conqueror" was ordered on 9 August 1966 and was laid down at Cammell Laird's Birkenhead shipyard on 5 December 1967; she was launched on
ARA General Belgrano ARA General Belgrano ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. as , she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold by the United States Navy to Argentina. The vessel was the second to have been named after the Argentine founding father Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820). The first vessel was a 7,069-ton armoured cruiser completed in 1896. She was sunk on 2 May 1982 during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine with the loss of 323 lives. Losses from "General Belgrano"