HMS Edinburgh leaves the Falklands for the last time
Known as the ‘Fortress of the Sea’, HMS Edinburgh is the largest and the last Type 42 destroyer to serve in the Royal Navy. She finished her six month tour of the South Atlantic Islands this week and is due to be decommissioned in June, but before heading north again Falkland Islands residents were given the opportunity to have a peek on board.
Open days are held on most tours said Commander Nick Borbone: “They are a good way of showing what the Royal Navy is all about. People who have no contact with the sea don’t necessarily see the relevance and applicability of maritime forces so it’s a good opportunity to show what we do.”
Commander Borbone said he has enjoyed his time in the Falklands. This being his second tour he was particularly glad to see the abundance of wildlife over summer.
“I have more photos of penguins than I know what to do with but my family is looking forward to the slide shows when I return home”.
Flight Observer Russ Chandler has had the privilege of viewing the Islands by Lynx helicopter: “We’ve visited Saunders, Pebble Island and the Neck and luckily get to fly every four days or so. We’ve been lucky too with the weather and there is a professional photographer on board who has captured some great shots of the wildlife,” he said.
MA Sasha Noates, one of the three medics on board, was assigned to HMS Edinburgh only on Tuesday: “The travel is a great part of my job and the Falklands has been a real surprise; I couldn’t find the cash machine but Stanley is a lovely town. In the last nine months this is the third place I’ve been deployed to”.
The next ship to tour the South Atlantic will be HMS Argyll, a Type 23 ‘Duke’ Class Frigate. (PN).-
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But I thought Uruguay supported Argentina over the Falklands so therefore would not allow a UK military ship into port.
It looks like Uruguay doesn't really support Argentina over the Falklands at all. Here's what Uruguay have sanctioned lately:
- Free trade between the two countries
- Chamber of Commerce visit to the Falklands
- Cargo flights between the countries
- Uruguayan politicians attending to observe the referendum
- British war ships - in the role of defence of the islands- visiting Montevideo port
It's the same as the Bloggs family's support for Arsenal Football Club. We wear the rip-off T-shirts but the club has received no actual support from us at all.
If so replacing a type 45 with a type 42 and then a type 23 means we are de-militarising the South Atlantic, right?
HMS Edinburgh fair winds and following seas old girl
It should be noted by objective observers - a point that has been seconded by many British officers who fought in the Falklands War - that the Argentine Air Force was courageous and flew the equivilant of suicide missions and that many of the their Exocets were hits or near misses but failed to explode. (This is an entirely different discussion.) Had these missiles achieved their desired effect, the outcome may have been different. Today the Argentine air assets are degraded and the British counter-air defense assets improved.
The Type 23 was always designed to function in deep water as a submarine hunter however it has a very sophisticated air defense in the form of Sea Wolf. It is also fitted with Harpoon for ship attack and the ubiquitous 4'5 gun.
The Type 23 was the first of the stealth class of RN ships effectively and is very difficult to detect due to how quite it is and its special surfaces.
Essentially in a fight between a 23 and a 42, the 23 wins every time.
The 23's are also a far nicer place to live for sailors. The 42's were extremely loud, hot confined ships and the 23's are virtually silent even in cruising stations and far, far nicer to live in.
When we did NATO training, the Type 23 proved so good at winning we were often asked to sit out of exercises involving other nations.
The 45's looks absolutely lethal. I have seen a few in pompey and they are very big for their class.
Joe!!! You bunch of glory chasers!!! Arsenal??? Surely you should be supporting such time honoured teams as Nottingham Forest or huh......erm, erm Notts County??? on second thoughts maybe you would be better where you are.......
1 reality check
It is sad to see another fine ship completing it's last tour and being de-commisioned. So, as you have already said, a job well done. The Royal Navy, even though it is too small, is THE BEST in the world and the crew should be proud of the service they have done. God speed.
“God speed your voyage home!”
Home?
Helloooo Turkey :-)))
Wonder if she saw any of the ARA whilst she was down there, suspect not, been avoiding the RN for 30 years. Those that can sail that is.
Hi too old. I have a bit of a soft spot for the Spire-rites I have to say.
I hope you're having a good weekend.
None have test fired a missile system for several years - which means those missile systems are unrelaible and dangerous for the ARA let alone anyone else!
Yes the RN does decommission ships when they need to be replaced. It then sells them for scrap or use as a target.
Your famous navy - what does it do?
It lets them roll over and sink in the naval base!!!!!!!!!!!
:-)
SELF DETERMINATION
No need for any argi bargi it IS FACT IT IS GOING AHEAD
Good weekend?? well it's the first one since Christmas that I am not working so Yep!!! it's a good one. Offspring No1 is in his bedroom on the X-Box as we speak... Offspring No2 is going into Nottingham with Mrs Tooold so yes it is a good weekend.
It's raining at the moment and snow is expected by this afternoon but who cares!!! The missus has made a killer Lasagne so it's all good!!
I hope you and your family are well..... Now, we are all looking forward to the result of the referendum in March
Go Falklands, go!!!!!
All behind you in Canada, too.
GO Falklands!!!!
All behind your return to England in Argentina, too.
Malvinas doesn't have to “go” anywhere, still a few kilometers off our beautiful mainland.
THANKS
32
NO THANKS. WE'RE FINE WHERE WE ARE.
189 years and nothing to show off
To scare to face us,
To scared to fight us,
To scared to back it up,
Nope these tough little rodents just come out at dusk and spread their liar and dehisces all over the place,
And Soddy offy at day break.
Either back it up
Or
Go home insulting cowards
.
@34 No, the “Malvinas” are between Oz and Neverland. Strangely, I remember Dorothy and Wendy. Even Tinker Bell. I don't remember anything called “Cristina”.
How do you remember all of your passwords Sussie? Especially considering how mentally retarded you are.
simon68zhivago yensere-ly skare isolde condorito chicureo and on and on and on.....nice web site to drop more crap!
I think that sussieUS has blown a gasket..... her post at 43 has me puzzled......
43 slatz
Sussie dear, if you are going to insult someone you have to use an insult or two you know??? you see what I'm saying here?
It's no use talking if no one can understand you, although I know that in your case, no one will ever be able to understand you.
Because the UK team don't give a shit about the islands or the UK navy
“It's no use talking if no one can understand you”
Case in point....... well done SussieUS!! Couldn't have put it better myself.
It's also funny because he goes to the trouble of registering many user accounts only to give himself away in one sentence.
Anyway, I hope there is another HMS Edinburgh soon!
they will never have , when the royal navy gets back up to strenth.
Most argentinians don't give a shit about the UK!
“ funny because he goes to the trouble of registering many user accounts only to give himself away in one sentence. ”
It makes one think that the people attracted to trolling, both privately and professionally (La Campora), are of the 'attention-whore' variety.
They seem to say anything to elicit a response. I thought that because of their fee-schedule, no response=no pay.
However, unless they employ types like Sussie to throw up flak to put legitimate discussion into disarray, making refuting the Argie message too difficult and time-intensive, I would say that he is an Independent looking for attention.
PH is simply too emotionally damaged to behave in any normal manner, but he does follow the La Campora-Peronist-Nacionalista, party-line.
it seems SussieUS is the winner....
we all know that!
you mean off the stolen Patagonian coastline? within which are buried the tens of thousands of indigenous people that Argentina systematically butchered during the rabid colonial expansion of Argentina?
(I guess they dont teach you that bit in CFK land)
Still waiting for some proof from any Argentinean about these nukes in the Falklands.... still not holding my breath. ;-)
Is that the LIBERTAD?
@57
Keep up Jonus ( you plonker ) Captain P0ppy ( note with a “ 0” ) Zero is an ARGENTINIAN TROLL
so what, i keep posting anyway. you have the choice to ignore the comments you don't like. fair enough.
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