HMS Portland begins her Atlantic deployment visiting England's centuries old ally Portugal

Tuesday, January 28th 2014 - 19:48 UTC

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HMS Portland has called into the Portuguese capital, the first stop of her Atlantic deployment that will take her to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia. Read full article

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ilsen
Just in case anyone is interested in 'having a go', thought you'd like to know...
HMS Portland, the fastest and most fearless Type 23 frigate in the Royal Navy. HMS Portland is one of the youngest Type 23 frigates in the Royal Navy, having been commissioned on 3 May 2001
Speed: 28 knots
Range: 14,485 km (9,000 miles) at 15 knots
Complement: 185
Sensors and processing systems:
Sonar 2087, Type 996 radar
Electronic warfare & decoys:
4 x 6-barrel Seagnat decoy launchers
DFL2/3 offboard decoys
Armament:
Anti-air missiles:
1× 32-cell Sea Wolf GWS.26 VLS canisters for 32 Sea Wolf missiles (range 1-10 km)
Anti-ship missiles:
2 × quad Harpoon launchers
Anti-submarine torpedoes:
2 × Twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns:
1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk8 gun
2 × 30mm DS30M automated guns, or, 2× 30mm DS30B guns
2 × Miniguns
4 × General-purpose machine guns

Aircraft carried: 1×Lynx HMA8, armed with;
4× Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or
2× anti submarine torpedoes
or
1×Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
4× anti submarine torpedoes
... makes one 'Think' does it not?
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
Way to go Commander Sarah West!!!

You do us here in the UK proud!! Good luck & god speed

1 ilsen

She is a very capable ship isn't she? ( I've got to get me one of those )
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britworker
@1
You have gone and done it now, there will be a never ending list of militarising the Atlantic and murdering women and children posts from the RG's.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
3 Britworker

And those nuclear submarines!!!

Don't forget those nuclear submarines that we keep on sending........

Now, where are they again??
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
4 year olds I tell you... murdering 4 year olds.... oh and £3 trillion in debt.... or was it £5 trillion? Anyway you are leaving that to your kids.... 4 year old kids.... hang on a minute...... 4 year old kids with £3 trillion of debt?..... no that's not right.....

Oh the life of a troll is so complicated!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
5 Anglotino

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my toys!!!!!!!!!!

I can not do this job without my toys!!!!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@2 totdy - Well that's what we get as tax-PAYERS, big shiny toys, hurrah for Commander Sarah West!
@3 Britworker
heeheehee, naughty me!
Sometimes it is just SO tempting to take a stick and poke a mangy old flea-ridden Argie dog...
... Especially when you have a very big stick....
@5 Anglotino - aw... you're spoiling it for them, poor ickle trollitos won't have anything left to say now... you nasty bully.... LOL!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
PMSL

It's alright. I didn't mention the Falkland's lack of a university or CT Scanners.

Or monolingualism!

Oops.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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toooldtodieyoung
8 Anglotino

Well, if “Suzie” was still here, she would shout about the Falkland's lack of a “Mall” as well
Jan 28th, 2014 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
or UK 'pirates' being 'fed-up' with Falkland 'parasites'...

oh, this is too easy, shooting fish in a barrel ... (especially when you have the fishing rights too - boom boom!)
LOL!
I'm off troll-hunting elsewhere, tally-ho!
Jan 28th, 2014 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
The Uk is not militarisating the Argentinian sea is it? HaHaHa. Nah, don't believe it. I think they are just delivering all the UK taxpayers US$ to the FALKLANDERS.
Jan 28th, 2014 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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You ought to be careful you don't get arrested....
....poking a mangy old flea-ridden Argie dog with your big stick...
“... Especially when you have a very big stick.... ”...no one likes a braggart...
...you need to get a girlfriend/wife..etc....
Jan 28th, 2014 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@7 yawn (big stick refers to HMS Portland and her rather impressive Commander Sarah West)
..yawn...
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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....and poking...dogs....?...fnarr fnarr....
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Still boring A_Voice.

Anyway,
Jan 29th, 2014 - 01:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
yawn.

Just go and read my post @1 then go and look in your harbours. Contrast and compare. Then add comment if you wish (and have stopped snivelling)...
Jan 29th, 2014 - 02:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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aussie sunshine
All those toys and no place to play!! HAHAHAHA
What is the use in spending all these billions when back home the Somerset Levels are flooded and the lives of so many are ruined by floods all over The UK...but hey wait a minute!! let´s spend spend spend on war defence.......
Jan 29th, 2014 - 03:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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FI_Frost
@17

You nailed it again. Our wet weather is the laughing stock of the civilised world. Standards & Poor's are looking at downgrading....
Jan 29th, 2014 - 08:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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I don't know who you are currently boring Skip....but it's not me....
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Hang on a minute let me just check....
If I was an old sad fecker with too much time on my hands like @1 ..I would be able to describe what I'm seeing...as I'm not not, I can only describe what I see sat at the entrance to Gare Loch as a war ship, grey in colour...
...there isn't a week that goes by when I don't see a war ship or nuclear submarine, sometimes both...what do you see from your window?
Are you my stooge...setting yourself up to be ridiculed with every post...
“....oh, this is too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel...”...indeed it is...

Be careful when Troll-hunting...lest you become the hunted....
...best stick to playing with your ...“big stick”... and leave the piss taking to me..

Oh, and ...er...Tally ho.....
Jan 29th, 2014 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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FI_Frost
@19

A_Voice, your sterling work on this board has not gone unnoticed in the Pink Palace. When she gets back from Cuba, KFC is gonna give you wanna dem shitty blue sashes and make you a 'Hero' of the Fatherland Republic. Wow.

Keep up the good work soldier killing dem turnip trolls! [Salute]
Jan 29th, 2014 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit87
Even I was not expecting Britards to be this... Britard. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/children-evacuated-from-swimming-pool-after-prosthetic-leg-mistaken-for-paedophile-9010525.html
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Faz
A_Voice AKA reborn Private Frazer from Dads Army, Scotch nationalist, colonist and fifth columnist. Inhabits a damp spot off the Clyde and watches Braveheart on a loop. Good music and various celebrations up there. It has some redeeming features - Celtic Connections for instance. Most enjoyable. Watch out for an alliance between the Pink President and tne Pink Palace.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
apparently CFK is testing her new navy ships,
called the water class,
they are testing one at the moment,

it can turn on its side, and it can get very wet,
the problem is getting it moving,..lolol
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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FI_Frost
@21

Tuesday 17 December 2013. My god! That's nearly update and the closest yet you've got to been on-topic: you're getting closer, don't give up now...
Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
As at 22 January 2014, the Order of Battle for the Fleet is shown in the following table.
Order of Battle
Landing Platform Helicopter
2
Landing Platform Dock
2
T45 6
T23 13
Hunt Class MCV
8
Sandown Class MCV 7
River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels 3
Helicopter Offshore Patrol Vessels 1
P2000 Patrol Boats 18
Ocean Survey Vessels 1
Coastal Survey Vessels 3
Ice Patrol Ship 1
Ships Submersible Ballistic Nuclear 4
Ship Submersible Nuclear 7
Assault Helicopters—Sea King Mk4 1 Sqn
Search and Rescue—Sea King Mk5
1 Sqn
Airbourne Surveillance and Control—Sea King Mk7 3 Sqns

Anti Submarine and Anti Surface:
Merlin Mk1 and Mk2 4 Sqns
Lynx Mk8 and Wildcat 3 Sqns

Battlefield Helicopters—Wildcat 1 Sqn
Elementary Flying 3 Sqns
Beechcraft King Air 350ER Avenger
1 Sqn
For the Royal Fleet Auxiliary:
Order of Battle
Fleet Tankers 2
Support Tankers 1
Small Fleet Tankers 2
Fleet Replenishment Ships 3
Landing Ship Dock
3
Aviation Training Ship 1
Forward Repair Ship 1
Does this answer the above question?

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2014-01-27a.184305.h

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Jan 29th, 2014 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
#22
Were you at the concert on Burn's night ? I saw it on the TV and thought that it was awful ! Young lassies singing and getting drowned out by the SNO.
They should have brought out Jean Redpath from retirement, and kept Karen Matheson for longer.
I'm sure that the festival was much better years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbkS3ArOO_I&list=RDDwenbu1RhM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbkS3ArOO_I&list=RDDwenbu1RhM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbkS3ArOO_I&list=RDDwenbu1RhM4
Getting a bit carried away here ....almost as bad as Brasileiro.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Faz
Clyde, I was at a friends Burns night supper. It was great stuff, you certainly know how to enjoy yourself up there. I was at various CC gigs other nights.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
@ 25 Briton
That works for me! :-)
Jan 29th, 2014 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@17 But then argieland only has sinking turds!
@18 Only thing it could “nail” would be its bollocks. Come to think of it, I could do that. I volunteer!
@19 Ah yes. A traitor. Still, all being well, be rid of you soon!
@26 SNO? Is that the Salmond National Offal?
Jan 29th, 2014 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Escoses Doido
@22
A_voice wants to be a Scot really badly.
But is not one.
I'm a native of Banff & Buchan, but I'll put money on having been in Dunoon before that person, - Even if he was born there.

I spent summer holidays there with relations in the 70's/80's........
Plus Army Cadet Force camp in the area, Early 80's..
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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From the guy that can't even describe the inside of Glasgow Airport.....;-))
....save it and your Googling persona for those that know no better....
..talk is cheap.....
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Escoses Doido
You have been found so wanting.

Indeed your talk is cheap.
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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At least I don't ridiculously contradict myself....

@30.....“A_voice wants to be a Scot really badly.”
“....but I'll put money on having been in Dunoon before that person, - Even if he was BORN there.”
I want you to think about that remark..........Doh!
When you describe the inside of Glasgow Airport...I'll take you seriously.
If you have relatives here....where exactly...I will know them....;-)))
I know everyone.....
Put up or shut up....
Jan 29th, 2014 - 09:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Escoses Doido
You didn't get the humor did you, the remark about if you had been born there.

You are a pro-argentinian 'Scot-wannabe'.

For me, as a Scot, you are the one who should put up or shut up.

By the way, do you know your way around my local airport, ABZ?

Do you know Scotland extends quite a bit farther North than Glasgow?
Jan 29th, 2014 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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Why would I go to an airport that only has European destinations....?
Glasgow is the biggest airport in Scotland if you were the jet set you claim to be, at some point you would have used Glasgow....but apparently not....
Why would I wannabe a Scot....I am what I am...A Voice....
You are the one desperate to be known as a Scot....so desperate it's in your name..
..I could care less.....I have never claimed a nationality....
You all assume....;-)))
Jan 29th, 2014 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Honestly I've never assumed Still boring A_Voice's nationally.

There's obviously a reason. Looking at posters with similar behaviour it is obviously because his nationality would detract from his contributions. Considering his contributions are rarely original ideas or commentary on the article and usually only nitpicking and arguing over minor points of others; then he would be in negative territory.

So let him keep his nationality secret. Would it change who Still boring A_Voice is? Not in the least because let's face it. That's not possible.
Jan 30th, 2014 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
A_Voice
Still boring.., forever boring, same ol' diatribe everytime...
Jan 30th, 2014 - 06:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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A_Voice
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Ha ha Skip is that why you keep following me from thread to thread....seeking my attention....because I'm boring....
Have I been neglecting you Skip?
Tell me what it is you need from me and I'll see if I can accommodate...
...you only had to ask...
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