The Snipe Incident, 1958

In the 1950s, Chile and Argentina were engaged in a dispute over the possession of several islands off the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. This scenario assumes that the dispute escalated into an exchange of shots between warships. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scenario Notes In history, while the Argentinians did destroy a Chilean lighthouse, shots were not exchanged between military vessels. In addition, the ship on station during this period was the Chilean patrol boat Lientur (a former Maricopa-class auxiliary fleet tug). Both because the Lientur would have been hopelessly outgunned against an Argentinian destroyer and because the Maricopa-class did not appear to be in the CWDB at the time this scenario was written, she has been replaced by a more capable Chilean warship. A delta template .ini file has been included in the .zip file to assist in updating the scenario to future versions of the database. Scenario Author: Mark Gellis