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Auction: 18002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 198

South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (MEM (M) 1 D P Goodwin D180821B NP 1810), nearly extremely fine

D. P. Goodwin served as Marine Engineer Mechanic (1st Class) with Naval Party 1810, commanded by Captain P. Badcock. Between 12-16 April 1982 the Swedish M.V. Stena Seaspread, a North Sea oil rig support vessel, was adapted to transport Naval Party 1810 to the Falkland Islands. Designed for a crew of 30, the vessel was crammed with 120 engineers including Goodwin.

Stena Seaspread arrived at South Georgia on 8 May, Badcock ordering his men to search scrap metal dumps for plates and girders. These were to prove invaluable when the ship arrived in San Carlos, West Falklands, on 16 May. Naval Party 1810 repaired ships damaged in battle, despite lacking dockyard facilities. Several ships which might otherwise have withdrawn from the war were repaired by Badcock's team. These included the destroyer H.M.S. Glasgow, hit by a bomb that passed through her engine room and damaged the fuel systems, the frigate H.M.S. Brilliant, whose weapons systems Naval Party 1810 repaired while under fire from the Argentine air force's Exocet missiles, and H.M.S. Argonaut, a frigate whose boilers the engineers repaired while two unexploded bombs, lodged in her Seacat magazine, were defused. Badcock was appointed C.B.E. for his services.

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