Falkland Islands Eagle Passage-New Island Admiralty chart HMS Glamorgan 1982 map
South Atlantic - Falkland Islands - Eagle Passage to New Island. Artist/engraver/cartographer: From Admiralty surveys. Provenance: From the Estate of Commander Inskip, Navigating Officer of HMS Glamorgan during the Falklands War 1982. The chart has "Ian Inskip Navigating Officer HMS Glamorgan" written in Inskip's hand in pencil on the reverse compilation drawing prepared by the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty. Issued in haste and "To be used with caution". Type: Large British nautical sea chart used on board HMS Glamorgan during the Falklands War in 1982. Sea charts such as this were working navigational aids which were commonly updated and corrected during their working lives by hand annotation and/or printed overlays. They may also feature manuscript navigational notes, comments or other markings. This is an original Admiralty sea chart used on board HMS Glamorgan during the 1982 Falklands War by Navigating Officer Ian Inskip. Commander Inskip was at the helm of the Glamorgan when it came under attack from an Argentine Exocet missile. He ordered a high speed turn away from the missile, which prevented it hitting the side of ship perpendicularly and penetrating the hull, instead resulting in a glancing blow. Although 14 crew members were killed in the strike, the damage caused was relatively minor and Glamorgan is the only ship to have survived an Exocet strike. Cdr Inskip later wrote a book entitled "Ordeal by Exocet". His oral history of the war, whcih refers to these maps, is online at
Size: 10168px × 6656px
Location: Falkland Islands
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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