Underfunded and now underwater

摘要

The Argentine defence minister has expressed shame as the navy suffered further major embarrassment after a warship sank while alongside at Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. The decommissioned Type 42 destroyer Santisima Trinidad toppled on to her side after a pipe burst and flooded the ship below decks. The revered Argentine-built vessel spearheaded the Junta's campaign in the Falkland Islands in 1982 and was to have become a museum.