The 22 Royal Marines on the HMS Endurance joined Steve Martin and the 13 men under his command in South Georgia .
Accessed 26 August 2007.This was decreased to 57 when 22 Royal Marines embarked aboard the Antarctic patrol ship HMS Endurance to join the 13-man British Antartic Survey ( BAS ) base commander Steve Martin How South Georgia was recapturedto observe Argentine soldiers based at South Georgia .
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands