In the end, the Argentine carrier got away.
Key point: The British won the war and sunk an Argentine battleship. However, Argentina could have also lost a carrier.
On the afternoon of April 30, 1982, the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Margret Thatcher transmitted a message to three Royal Navy submarines in the South Atlantic—designating the carrier
Veinticino de Mayo a priority target to be hunted down and destroyed.
The Argentine carrier—ironically, of British origin—posed an unpredictable threat to the Royal Navy taskforce commencing amphibious operations to retake the disputed Falkland Islands following their seizure by Argentinian troops on April 2, 1982.