[andrewb]

Originally Posted by jambutty

And andrewb if the ship was steaming away at the time she was torpedoed she could not have been turning round. There has been some alleged documentary evidence that the Belgrano was going away to come back another day but that is all conjecture.

I was under the impression that this was proved by previously unseen documents a year or two ago. That the Belgrano was under orders to attack, and that she was turning around to come back.