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A pair of Royal Navy Wessex helicopters on the flight deck of HMS Intrepid, 1968. An improved variant, the Wessex HAS.3, succeeded the HAS.1 in the anti-submarine role; it had a more capable radar and better avionics, greater engine power, improved navigational features and a more advanced weapon system; the original HAS.1 were re-tasked for SAR duties. [5]
Atlantic Conveyor 14,946 GRT – equipped with helicopter pad [6] and carried eight BAE Sea Harriers (809 Squadron - aircraft later transferred to the two carriers), six Hawker Siddeley Harriers, six Westland Wessex helicopters, and four CH-47 Chinook helicopters (18 Squadron RAF); arrived 19 May [3] [6] [22] - hit 25 May by one or two ...
Three Wessex helicopters were dispatched from the Task Force: two Wessex Mk5s from Tidespring and one Mk3 from Antrim. After one failed attempt, they managed to locate and embark the stranded SAS men, but in whiteout conditions, one pilot became disorientated and his aircraft crashed.
Westland Wessex HAS.3: XP142: HMS Antrim Crest: Falklands Exhibition - Humphrey. Sharpnel damage to aircraft Westland Wessex HU.5: XT765: J: Falklands Exhibition Westland Sea King HAS.6: XV663: 771 SAR 18 Rescue / RAF Rescue: Falklands Exhibition - previously used by 825 NAS. Left side in Royal Navy markings and the right side in yellow Royal ...
A Westland Wessex helicopter delivering supplies at Ascension Island in May 1982. The 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands depended on complex logistical arrangements. The logistical difficulties of operating 7,000 nautical miles (8,100 mi; 13,000 km) from home were formidable.
Lost on board a ship. 3 Westland Lynx HAS.2 (aboard Ardent on 21 May and aboard Coventry and Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May) [13] 3 Chinook HC.1 RAF [15] 6 Westland Wessex HU.5 [15] 1 Westland Wessex HAS.3 (when Glamorgan hit by shore-launched Exocet on 12 June) [13] Self-destruct in Chile. 1 Westland Sea King HC.4 (on 20 May) [13] Total
A Westland Wessex HAS.3 of 845 Naval Air Squadron operating during 1964 in Borneo, during the Indonesian Confrontation. After disbanding yet again in mid-1959, the squadron was reformed on 10 April 1962, as a Commando Helicopter Squadron with Westland Wessex HAS.1's. It was the first commando squadron to have these helicopters.
Up to 20 Wessex helicopters (1973) RFA Sir Galahad (L3005) was a Round Table-class landing ship logistics vessel belonging to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) of the United Kingdom . The ship saw service in the Falklands War of 1982, where she was bombed and set afire at Fitzroy on 8 June.