All convoy and insertion movements went to plan.

HMS Cordella and Pict swept Berkley Sound. Pict's acoustic sweep gear failed and Lt-Cdr D G Garwood turned on the trawler's auxiliary machinery and made a noisy sweep of the lane. Lt-Cdr Garwood was awarded a Mention in Despatches for his sacrificial run.

Sea Harriers from 800 Sqn lofted a number of 1,000lb bombs at Port Stanley airfield.

Port Stanley police station came under attack after being identified as being used by the Argentine military staff as headquarters. An 848 Sqn Wessex 5, supported by a 845 Sqn Wessex 'gun-ship', fired two AS.12 missiles at the building. The first went astray, crashing into the water 200 yards from the hospital ship Bahia Paraiso - resulting in the Argentine authorities making a formal complaint - the second entered the upper storey of the police station causing heavy casualties among the Argentine military command's Intelligence Section.

QE2 arrived in Southampton carrying 700 survivors from sinkings of HMS Ships Coventry, Ardent and Antelope. She was greeted by a gun salute fired from HMS Lowestoft and honoured by the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in the Royal Yacht Britannia.

The day was spent preparing for the assault on the first line of the Argentine defences.

Uganda and Hecla entered Grantham Sound to embark casualties and left before sunset.

Glamorgan joined the Battle Group in the early afternoon. She Yarmouth and Arrow headed for the gunlines for the night's bombardments.

RAF Harriers dropped cluster bombs on the Argentine positions on Two Sisters, Mount Harriet, Mount Longdon, Mount Tumbledown and Moody Brook barracks.

42 Cdo RM attacked Mount Harriet.

45 Cdo RM attacked Two Sisters.

3 Para attacked Mount Longdon.

House on the outskirts of Stanley hit by British shelling, causing the only civilian casualties of the war.