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In his book '100 Days' Sandy Woodward described meeting the Cmdr of the HMS Conqueror, Chris Wreford-Brown back home some time after the conflict.

According to his accounts, Wreford-Brown told him that after putting a couple of slugs into the Belgrano he was in two minds as to wether to make a 2nd attack and sink the escorts who were with her but thought it might be a war crime so didn't.

Woodward told him in no certain terms that it wouldn't have been a war crime and if he'd been there he wouldn't have hesitated to sink every ship even those rescuing the Belgrano's survivors.

If Wreford-Brown had made the 2nd attack and sunk both the escorts, (Allen M Summer class, complement around 340ish) and with the possible loss of life similar to that of the Belgrano at around 50%, what would the repercussions politically and military of doing this?

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