 Kelvin MacKenzie, editor of the popular tabloid, is reported to have used an impromptu exclamation by "The Sun"s features editor, Wendy Henry, as the inspiration for the headline.The accompanying text reported that "General Belgrano" had only been hit and damaged and not sunk, while a "gunboat" (actually the armed tug ARA "Alférez Sobral") had sunk, when in fact the reverse was the case.After early editions went to press, further reports suggested a major loss of life and Mackenzie toned down the headline in later editions to read "Did 1,200 Argies drown?