UK’s biggest warship suffers propeller shaft damage off south coast after setting sail for US

[Poignard]

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.

RN ship to be repaired in an EU country?

That'll go down well with the G.....s that watch GB News ?

 

[capnsensible]

Yup furthest north I have sailed was Iceland but I bet I can piss higher up a wall than you.

Lightweight.

 

[capnsensible]

Do the Royal Navy not have maps these days? Maybe the Admiral didn't do Geography as well as English...

They call them 'charts'

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Lightweight.

Ah but I did both under my own steam

 

[Biggles Wader]

RN ship to be repaired in an EU country?

That'll go down well with the G.....s that watch GB News ?

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Could be worse. At least we havent had to ask the French to fix it.

 

[Giblets]

Currently sitting at Charlie anchorage in the Solent.

 

[SaltIre]

Currently sitting at Charlie anchorage in the Solent.

I wonder which of the Officers is feeling a right charlie...
- Navigator
- Officer of the Watch
- Captain
- Medical Officer
One wonders who "Had the Ship".

 

[Kukri]

What am I failing to understand, here?

 

[Bouba]

I wonder which of the Officers is feeling a right charlie...
- Navigator
- Officer of the Watch
- Captain
- Medical Officer
One wonders who "Had the Ship".

Why the Medical Officer ? Were they supposed to declare the Officer of the Watch unfit BEFORE the watch?

 

[SaltIre]

Why the Medical Officer ? Were they supposed to declare the Officer of the Watch insane BEFORE the watch?

He or she would be famous if forced to take the rap as a convenient scapegoat!

 

[Biggles Wader]

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They went back to look for the bit that fell off the Sbd prop. At least they didnt drop a whole aircraft this time.

 

[Kukri]

Damen, Amsterdam, Dock 4?

250 x 36 x 8 metres.

She is 39 metres waterline beam and 284 metres OA.

Either someone has done their sums very carefully, or someone hasn’t done their sums.

Or maybe someone means Damen Rotterdam
Dock 8, which is VLCC sized?

Docks 2 and 3 at Brest are ULCC size, currently available, and nearer. Or would that be too much for the Daily Mail and the Prime Minister in waiting?

 

[SaltIre]

Could the folk at the BBC not find a picture of her "setting off"? Next they'll be saying she limped into port...

HMS Prince of Wales may miss US jet trials after breakdown

 

[Kukri]

My lot are almost exactly the same size, and I keep a note of dry docks that will take one, just in case. But we seem to manage with two tugs, not a flotilla.

 

[Bouba]

So...a simple question...those that kept extolling the short comings of the ship, both in design and construction...are you satisfied now that it was an accident (whether human error or not)? Or do you still blame the ship?

 

[Poignard]

Could be worse. At least we havent had to ask the French to fix it.

They can't even fix Bouba's fuel tank!

 

[st599]

So...a simple question...those that kept extolling the short comings of the ship, both in design and construction...are you satisfied now that it was an accident (whether human error or not)? Or do you still blame the ship?

The boat can't help that it wasn't constructed on Tyneside and is therefore an inferior boat.

 

[Poignard]

Damen, Amsterdam, Dock 4?

250 x 36 x 8 metres.

She is 39 metres waterline beam and 284 metres OA.

Either someone has done their sums very carefully, or someone hasn’t done their sums.

Or maybe someone means Damen Rotterdam
Dock 8, which is VLCC sized?

Docks 2 and 3 at Brest are ULCC size, currently available, and nearer. Or would that be too much for the Daily Mail and the Prime Minister in waiting?

Maybe the RAF could make the docks a bit bigger...... ?

 

[SaltIre]

So...a simple question...those that kept extolling the short comings of the ship, both in design and construction...are you satisfied now that it was an accident (whether human error or not)? Or do you still blame the ship?

I blame Charlie Windsor or whatever name he uses these days...

 

[Bouba]

They can't even fix Bouba's fuel tank!

I have to be honest...and give credit where credit is due...we were very happy with the yard who did the work, they were professional and efficient