Thistle
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What's HMS Pembroke up to? Has she lost something? She's been going round in circles in the Firth of Forth off Rosyth since 0600 and is still at it 14+ hours later.
HMS Pembroke
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LiftyK
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Degaussing?
dunedin
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Was doing exactly the same thing all day on Tuesday. Don’t know if continued yesterday.
The navy must have plenty of fuel to burn.
Pump-Out
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Thistle
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Aren't Sandown Class Minehunters fibreglass hulls?
Skeffles
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I think I remember this episode, doesn't it end with Cmdr Povey's mother-in-law finally going home, and then Sub-Lt. Phillips crashes the ship?
prv
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She's a minehunter. I don't know much about hunting mines, but it doesn't surprise me that practising it (or testing or trialling the equipment used for it) might involve a lot of going up and down over the same stretch of seabed.
Pete
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mainsail1
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From the Horse's mouth: HMS Pembroke @hms_pembroke
"Oct 7
Today we start our engineering trials to ensure that everything works as it should after our refit. This is the view aft from the bridge during our full power trial. We may not be able to outrun an F-14, but we certainly feel the need for speed." By the way, they are in the wrong place for degaussing..........
"Oct 7
Today we start our engineering trials to ensure that everything works as it should after our refit. This is the view aft from the bridge during our full power trial. We may not be able to outrun an F-14, but we certainly feel the need for speed." By the way, they are in the wrong place for degaussing..........
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capnsensible
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The Carrier Prince of Wales has been knitting spaghetti a bit further north to.
Thistle
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I was beginning to wonder if Pembroke was looking for something PoW dropped while she was waiting to transit the bridges.
capnsensible
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I was beginning to wonder if Pembroke was looking for something PoW dropped while she was waiting to transit the bridges.
Could have been a leek?
Kukri
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Russian submarine?
Scillypete
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The only HMS Pembroke I knew would never float being a shore based training establishment and had the hardest training course in the Royal Navy which nobody ever passed. . . . . . . It was the cooks course
weustace
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Yes, that's right. Then "trouble with the steering gear's always a winner at the court-martial!"
Boathook
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The beeb could commission a new series based upon a fictitious aircraft carrier with prop problems, leaks and improper use of cars ..............
capnsensible
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It could have a day named after it too:
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/d...-a-day-of-celebration-in-her-honour-1-9112614
capnsensible
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Kukri
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I quote:
“ The project, which got underway at the beginning of this year, included Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) work on the freshwater tanks, an overhaul of the propulsion systems, maintaining generators and work on the ship’s sonar and communications system.”
This took fifty people “plus specialist subcontractors”, nine months? She’s only a tiddler.
A typical merchant ship maintains her own propulsion systems and generators and is in and out of dry dock in ten days, with specialist subcontractors for the comms.
Strewth!
“ The project, which got underway at the beginning of this year, included Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) work on the freshwater tanks, an overhaul of the propulsion systems, maintaining generators and work on the ship’s sonar and communications system.”
This took fifty people “plus specialist subcontractors”, nine months? She’s only a tiddler.
A typical merchant ship maintains her own propulsion systems and generators and is in and out of dry dock in ten days, with specialist subcontractors for the comms.
Strewth!
capnsensible
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You seriously can't see why?