ARA Narwal

ARA Narwal was an Argentinian fishing trawler, equipped for ELINT purposes during the Falklands War and captained by Asterio Wagata.

[1] Narwal was heavily damaged in an attack by British Sea Harriers from HMS Hermes on 9 May 1982.

The ship was hit by a 1000-pound bomb, but it failed to explode as it had been released below the lowest prescribed height and did not arm in time.

[3] A boarding party of British SBS men reached the target via a Sea King Mk.4 of 846 Naval Air Squadron and captured the ship dead in the water, taking off all of the men, and the body of Omar Alberto Rupp, the boatswain of the Argentine trawler, killed by the impact of the bomb.

[3] Among those captured was Captain Juan Carlos González of the Argentine Navy's information services,[4] who was released after the war.