Tag: HMS Phoebe

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 00:58 UTC

  South Georgia ‘77 “Operation Journeyman”, a drill for the recovery of the Falklands in 1982

  

  The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter recalls a major British military and political event in the South Atlantic has been largely overlooked by the region’s history books. A Royal Navy task force, codenamed Operation Journeyman, was deployed to the waters around South Georgia and the Falklands in 1977 following the occupation of Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands by 50 Argentine “scientists”.