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HMS Argyll begins her West Africa and South Atlantic tour
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll left on Monday from Devonport for the West African region and the South Atlantic to undertake a range of tasks in support of British interests worldwide. She replaces in her South Atlantic tour HMS Edinburgh, ‘Fortress of the Seas’ which is to be decommissioned next June. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesmilitarization chatter here we come lol
Feb 19th, 2013 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here begins the HMS Argyll`s peaceful vacation tour over the South Atlantic to defend 1300 British people from agresive and mighty Argentine army.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0And where are those Argentine navy frigates?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 01:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0.hese trash believe living in times of ships of candles as in the time of the usurpation of the Malvinas Argentinas in 1833 and hypocritically speak of “British interests”.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 02:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I had my i would expect with the torpedos.
Harbour Tours
Feb 20th, 2013 - 02:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Your tinpot submarines couldn't even fire their torpedoes in 1982! Given the state of your navy and lack of newer subs and weapon systems, what makes you think you can fire one now? You got more chance of one exploding whilst still in the torpedo tube then you have of your navy ever managing to actually fire one!
Feb 20th, 2013 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0“agresive and mighty Argentine army”
Feb 20th, 2013 - 03:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Have to love post 2's misspelling and then confusion! ARMY?
Oh that's right. Argentina doesn't have any real navy to speak of!
I love it when the trolls try to get in early and then make themselves look even stupider than they already looked.
The ARA submarine fleet have just released a promotional video entitled, “Run silent, Run deep.” To you and I that's known has, “Sunk.”
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Donkey meat crisis to energy crisis, what's next?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Britain 'on the brink' of energy crisis, warns regulator”
“Households must prepare for a sharp rise in energy bills within two years as Britain comes “dangerously” close to power shortages, the chief executive of Ofgem has warned”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9879442/Britain-on-the-brink-of-energy-crisis-warns-regulator.html
“HMS Argyll will be participating in counter-narcotics”
Suuuuuuuuuuuure
“Eighteen sailors on a Royal Navy warship have tested positive for cocaine, the MoD has said.
They were caught during routine testing onboard HMS Liverpool, deployed in the South Atlantic. The ship has been involved in combating drug smuggling”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9879442/Britain-on-the-brink-of-energy-crisis-warns-regulator.html
British Argentine Expat. Still keeping the folks back home up to date with the latest news from the British home front I see.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0“the usurpation of the Malvinas Argentinas in 1833”
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, OK. What a frickin' lunatic.
10RC
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, here's my address:
London SW1A 1AA
Don't know what expat is whinging about. His relatives back home will be burning pesos to keep warm and he will be paying more for his energy along with the rest of us. C'est la vie.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Loved the druggy story from 2008 though. Those sailors been civvies for nearly five years by now, after they got out the glass house that is.
Burning pesos to keep warm? I am sure you know that we are in the middle of the summer right?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 05:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0What, they only have one season back on the old country?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 05:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well they not got enough dollar reserves to buy fuel for this coming winter, and they can not buy with peso's, so they might as well burn them to keep the heat on.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 06:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0They'll be getting ration books soon for energy and food lol
Nice to see, showing the flag, touring British territories & as a visual reminder to the malvinistas that Argentina is NOT the centre of the universe. lol
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9
Feb 20th, 2013 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least we know the situation and address it as regards power shortages.Not going to happen though. How are your power shortages going, you been able to keep the lights on?
@2 Yup. Only needs one proper ship, i.e. floating, to deter the “agresive and mighty Argentine army.”
Feb 20th, 2013 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 If I had my way no argie or argieland would exist!
@9 We have a navy. Where's yours?
@14 I see it's raining. And it's going to get colder! Sunny here in Britain.
So given the normal arrangement of these things I'm guessing the order will be:
Feb 20th, 2013 - 01:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Complaint to the UN about militarizing the South Atlantic (despite it being a frigate replacing a destroyer)
Condemnation of the whole replacing-one-ship-with-another from whichever South American alphabet soup committee is currently most in KFC's pocket.
Argyll having a relatively quiet six months tooling around the South Atlantic, and finally...
Argyll's crew having a number of nice relaxing shore leave sessions in the Carribean on their way home.
“”“Condemnation of the whole replacing-one-ship-with-another from whichever South American alphabet soup committee is currently most in KFC's pocket.”“””
Feb 20th, 2013 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0arfarfarf!
The headline upon completion of this latest sailing should be ''HMS Argyll successfully completes the South Atlantic Navy pentathlon. Featuring such games as 'Don't get impounded in dock' , 'make sure you're seaworthy' and many more*.''
Feb 20th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*Games were subject to change right up until the last minute, as we awaited yet another ARA vessel in unusual difficulties to provide inspiration.
HMS Argyll
Feb 20th, 2013 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0will go where it wants , when it wants , and their is nothing Argentina can do about it,
as proven time and time again,
despite the CFK cries to the UN.
You think they would be more concerned about the subs off their coast than a single frigate, mind you it does float and it is allowed to visit foreign ports without risk of being impounded, that's got to make it a danger to the ”might Argentine navy@ lol
Feb 21st, 2013 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And, it British sepoys who are the cause of all Argentinas woes. Read all about it here:- http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/124653/puppets-on-a-string . Absolutely hilarious. With newspaper articles like this no wonder KFC and tinman are so desperate!
Feb 21st, 2013 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was suggested; she said, that but for the nasty British,
Feb 21st, 2013 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina would be ruling the whole of South America by now,
And its all the fault of the dastardly British ,lolol.
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@Marcos Alejandro , How sad you feel so bad about your homeland remind us all again why you can not go and live back home in that shit hole Argentina
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