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Cutting steel ceremony for Royal Navy's First Type 26: “HMS Glasgow”
The first of eight new Type 26 frigates being built for the Royal Navy has been named HMS Glasgow. The name was revealed by Defense Secretary Sir Michael Fallon as he cut the first steel on the ship at BAE System's Govan shipyard. The last HMS Glasgow, a Type 42 Destroyer, was awarded the “Falkland Islands 1982” battle honor. The new anti-submarine warfare frigates will be known as the City Class. Read full article
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Jul 21st, 2017 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Since Argentina no longer has any ships worth sinking, nor any planes worth splashing, nor even an army to pillory again, the new RN ships will now probably deal with the likes of more civilised nations, such as North Korea.
Jul 21st, 2017 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Will she be sailing on the Argentinian continental shelf?
Jul 21st, 2017 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Argentina's Continental Shelf Claims and The UN CLCA Commission (1 page):-
https://www.academia.edu/33898951/Argentinas_Continental_Shelf_Claims_-The_UN_CLCS_Commission
Yay wonderful...is the new Aircraft Carrier still broken down at Invergorden...?
Jul 21st, 2017 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Been keeping that one quiet eh...
The “ new aircraft carrier” is not yet in service.
Jul 21st, 2017 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Argie lovers revel in Britain's failures. Little shit Think and his pantomime horse part will be along directly. We now have 3 parts to the horse, one resembling an excited member!
Jul 21st, 2017 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Marti Llazo
Jul 21st, 2017 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -3...and yet it is broken down at Invergorden...instead of doing sea trials...
Is that not why they're called “trials?”
Jul 21st, 2017 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +2No a trial is where you test something...
Jul 21st, 2017 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -2All the equipment and functions..
Broken down is where you are repairing something that failed its trial...
At 3.5 Billion it is not what you should be expecting...
...and considering that it comes out of my pocket and not yours I can quite understand why it doesn't bother you...
What comes out of your pocket, tinkle, is the millions that the EU gifts to Argentina.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse +2What!
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 01:43 am - Link - Report abuse +2So the trials aren't necessary because nothing is ever going to fail?
You weren't really a high ranking military officer were you.
You sound more like a muso.
Tinkle seems very confused on the matter of how such large ships are constructed and tested, and how they are essentially treated as prototypes for a considerable period of time. The carrier in question is still in the hands of the builder and has not even been turned over to the RN. The stop at Invergorden was planned and scheduled long ago. The ship is not “broken down” in any normal sense of the expression but then normal expression is not to be expected from tinkle. There are some indications that one of the screws was fouled from something encountered at sea and at least some of the work in port has been to clear and inspect the fouling. There may also be some assessment of the alignment of a propulsion shaft, but such things are part of the purpose of sea trials. To hear tinkle rant on the subject, you'd think the ship were taking on water and about to sink.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse +2Timing of First Entry Portsmouth (FEP) is dependent upon achieving RFSD and the subsequent success of Power and Propulsion Trials. This initial Contractor Sea Trials period we call euphemistically ‘5-1-5’, i.e. from RFSD, five weeks at sea, one week alongside (Invergordon), five weeks at sea, then FEP: a standard package that must be executed in full from whichever start date we achieve.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 05:59 am - Link - Report abuse -3That was the plan...
Not 12 days at sea... then 13 days at Invergorden...
Broken down...
Marti, you are flogging a dead horse, it's not lack of understanding, it's just Argie propaganda. All they have is the Liberturd that floats upright. ;-)
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 07:50 am - Link - Report abuse +3Cover your eyes...stick your fingers in your ears...
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse -4and...
Stop shooting the messenger...
Cover your eyes...stick your fingers in your ears...
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1and...
keep telling everyone you were a senior military officer...
when you weren't...
Since when have I ever claimed that...?
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -2I think you are a little confused...
Old age perhaps...?
Perhaps on Planet Tinkle-Voice, a tiny splinter in one's finger is evidence of a mortal wound. A fellow at a clinic by virtue of being there for an examination is .... broken down.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Perhaps tinkle-voice would tell us exactly what is wrong with the ship, rather than discussing schedule changes. So far we know about one fouled screw and propeller shaft which have been cleared, but perhaps that is enough for tinkle-voice to qualify as “broken down.”
It's rather clear that the one who is “broken down” is the tinkle-voice.
Sorry Voicey, I keep mixing you up with DoD and Think. Can't think why.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +1;-))
“It has been confirmed that HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently having rectification and repair work done after a propeller issue was identified in sea trials.”
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Source...UK Defence Journal
When does one repair something...?
When it has broken...
Broken down alrighty...;-))))
So what? It didn't roll over and the Royal Navy didnt have to scale a mock Malvinas invasion in canoes? Get a sense of proportion.
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If it was towed into Invergordon then it had broken down. If it came in under it's own power then it had not.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +1http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/hms-queen-elizabeths-extended-stop-at-invergordon-explained/
Well if it ain't broken why repair it...huh, huh...?
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse -1I rest my case M'lud...
Yes please take a rest. You are sounding a little horse (the back end in this case...)
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Tinkle-voice's diminished capacity for understanding the most fundamental concepts surely puts him in a league with other argentines like Reekie.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +1In NATO terms, the availability of line systems is typically described as FMC ( Full Mission Capable), PMC (Partly Mission Capable), and NMC (Not Mission Capable).
“Broken down” on the other hand is a marker of infantile expression.... huh, huh.
Oooo....look the Spaniard can Google...
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse -1My turn...
..in Naval speak...
Clearly the QEC having already proceeded through the SSMOB to its late RFSD will now have to shift the FEP because the 5-1-5 which must be executed in full, from RFSD, will now have to be extended…
…because it broke….;-))))
Tinkle-voice finding some MLAs on the internet does not impress the cognoscenti. Nor anyone else.
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 11:13 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Nor does his inability to describe precisely what is “broke.”
Huh...What Micro Lens Arrays have I found...?
Jul 22nd, 2017 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Multi Letter Acronym, you horse's arse.
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse +1Did Y'all see what I did there...?
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 05:17 am - Link - Report abuse -2What a slow sucker...
So what exactly is the item that is “broke” on this ship, HA?
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Grasping at straws I see...
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 03:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -1If you had bothered to check thoroughly the Alliance has only issued one statement...the rest is unconfirmed reports..
Roads and all access to it was stopped and guarded and no stopping on the road adjacent...
One has to accept whatever they wish to say...
If for instance it has to head back to the dry dock at Rosyth..it's serious...
It will only have that opportunity once every two weeks when the tides are right...
Not sure what it has to do with the Highways Agency though...
What, exactly, is “broke” tinkle?
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +1We don't need a traffic report.
Or do you just assume that all ships in port are “broke” ?
And now we return to our usual display of vacuous allegations.
Tinkle's obviously not versed in nautical matters. Standard practice is armed patrol on decks, gangways and Oceanside on all HM's ships. Just try to get anywhere near one and you will regret it. Even 'broke' ones...
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +1What part of...“the Alliance has only issued one statement...the rest is unconfirmed reports..”
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse -1didn't you understand...?
“The ship is performing well, however an item of debris was caught around one of the propeller shafts. This was subsequently cleared and an investigation has been undertaken.
“The ship is currently in Invergordon for one of her planned stops during the trials programme, to store and re-fuel the ship. As a precautionary measure, we will use this opportunity to complete further thorough checks and ensure sea trials continue safely.”
So a one week scheduled stop extends to two...and there is nothing wrong...
Typical Marti tactic...when you have nothing...just repeat yourself...
Marti, Tinkle is never wrong, he hates being wrong even when he is. If you want upset him just tell him he is wrong. He has been wrong about so many things it's impossible to list them. Been shown up over and over by Terry, and Roger . In this case it's all supposition, he actually know anything more than he can Google. Just a keyboard warrior with an inflated ego. Says it all really...
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Tinkle-voice is basing his opinion of the ship being “ broke” on an unconfirmed report that a biting midge was found aboard, evidently engaged in eating.
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Yay... after last nights aborted sailing the Carrier is finally being tugged out of the Firth of Cromarty...
Jul 23rd, 2017 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Marti, You are right, HMS Queen Elizabeth is not in service yet she is currently undertaken sea trials, she will be in service soon enough. The Royal Navy although small is still a force to be reckoned with unlike Argentina's. Argentine investment in her navy has been minimal and the latest additions, four new corvettes are nothing more than 30 year old oil rig support vessels painted grey. HMS Prince of Wales is nearing completion as well. Our only really old vessels are our SSBNs/SSNs and their replacements are being built as we speak.
Jul 24th, 2017 - 04:34 am - Link - Report abuse +1'Marti Llazo
Jul 24th, 2017 - 05:38 am - Link - Report abuse +1What, exactly, is “broke” tinkle?
We don't need a traffic report.
Or do you just assume that all ships in port are “broke” ?
And now we return to our usual display of vacuous allegations.'
Thicko assumes all ships in port are 'broke' because that is the way it is in Argentina....
Did they ever get that one they had to tow home ( or in Thicko speak .... 'tugged home' ) after exercises down at Puerto Williams working again?
Scottish news on BBC. The Captain was interviewed about the damage and said it was on the propeller shaft and it required inspection and repair by divers. This was a highly complex operation, however, the ship is now at sea and continuing her trials. Today she was sailed at her top speed and performed faultlessly, smoothly and with no vibration.
Jul 24th, 2017 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Just now she is steaming at 7.5 knots in the Moray Firth North of Buckie.
There was a tiny smudge from a squashed midge on tinkle-voice's bicycle handlebars this morning and so he turned it in at the garage, complaining that his sole authorised conveyance was, uh, .......broke.
Jul 24th, 2017 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Good sense of humour Marti, just keep it going.
Jul 24th, 2017 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well...
Jul 29th, 2017 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0They better repair that Queenie... ganz schön schnell...
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/28/asia/south-china-sea-uk-johnson/index.html
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