UK’s biggest warship suffers propeller shaft damage off south coast after setting sail for US
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ean_p
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Is it not 'set' as in set off and not 'set' as in the setting of the sails....?I know submarines have sails - but if she set sail - she does not really need a propellor (as she will be handled by tugs when she arrives)
But why do we persist in saying that an aircraft carrier, or any other vessel, 'set sail' for (anywhere)
Jonathan
Bouba
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What about ‘set’ as in sunset...
ean_p
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or game............
capnsensible
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Don't quite think you are on the page with this.
The other carrier, as can be discovered on line, is making a deployment soon with its fast jets operational.
The broken one was, and probably still will, be heading across the Atlantic for Excersise Westlant 22. This will involve a lot of hard yakka flying fast jet and Banshee drone trials. Hence a peed off Admiral regarding trials, but Strategic Carrier Deterrent remains intact. Like itssupposed to.
Hope this helps.
capnsensible
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I've been further north than your old boat in a sleek underwater deliverer of death.....
Fr J Hackett
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If you start that pissing contest Saltire will win hands down but in terms of kudos then Kukri has it in spades.
capnsensible
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We will include you out then.....
capnsensible
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Suggestions of dry docking for fix in......Amsterdam! The ship's company who are not involved will be well happy with that run ashore.
capnsensible
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Mister E
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Was that in one of the ones that got stuck on a sandbank?
SaltIre
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Does England not have a dry dock big enough?Suggestions of dry docking for fix in......Amsterdam! The ship's company who are not involved will be well happy with that run ashore.
Kukri
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Suggestions of dry docking for fix in......Amsterdam! The ship's company who are not involved will be well happy with that run ashore.
Rosyth not available?
Kukri
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Does England not have a dry dock big enough?
I can answer that, I think: no.
capnsensible
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Sources onboard HMS Prince of Wales have told the UK Defence Journal that the damaged aircraft carrier will likely head to a drydock in Amsterdam for repairs.
Multiple independent sources have told me that it is believed that the warship’s propellor hit something on the sea bed.
“Either the propellor hit the floor or something on it. Definitely dry docking needed, and Amsterdam is being touted as an easier option than Rosyth.”
Earlier this year, a £30 million contract for dry-dock maintenance for the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers was awarded to Babcock at Rosyth. The contract covers routine and emergency dry-docking periodically throughout the carrier’s lives to undertake maintenance and repair activities.
Amsterdam in this case is closer and easier to get to, but this has yet to be officially confirmed.
SaltIre
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What kind of anchor was Adam LNG using? Had it dragged the collision might have been avoided...
SaltIre
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Ship might be held to ransom...???????
SaltIre
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Do the Royal Navy not have maps these days? Maybe the Admiral didn't do Geography as well as English...
Bouba
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Perhaps it hit a recently sunk boat....any forumites missing lately ?Do the Royal Navy not have maps these days? Maybe the Admiral didn't do Geography as well as English...
Fr J Hackett
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We will include you out then.....
Yup furthest north I have sailed was Iceland but I bet I can piss higher up a wall than you.