[Closed] Navy ships

I love the fact that those puppies share their engines with Vulcan bombers and Intercity 125s.

Kinda brings all these lovely threads together 🙂

Never get sick of the sight of The HMS Victory

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Most of the ships are running concorde engines now 🙂

a massive pool of them in circulation with rolls royce

Ark Royal *sob*. Went on board Her and loads of others in Oz for the Bicentenary celebrations in Fremantle. All were great, but Ark Royal and her battle group put on a real show with Harriers flying past at low level as she sailed in to port. Proper proud to be British moment.

None of those are blue!
This is a navy ship
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I suppose as I've spent a few days on board (in dock upgrading kit) it has to be this one:
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The most appropriately named warship.

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HMS Daring with USS Enterprise.

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As I'm an honorary crew member I suppose it has to be HMS Beaver (no s****ing at the back silly boys)
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When it comes to putting your point across in a forthright and indisputable manner, this is a pretty good example:
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USS Iowa

...and New Jersey. Fingers in yer ears, folks!
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Are those ships actually moving in the opposite direction to the firing of the guns (more than minisculy) or is that just some optical illusion/reflection in the water...? 😯

Also, a ship from my childhood:
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Nah, sadly that's caused by the blasts rucking up the water rather than moving the ship, the recoil's too small. Check it out...

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of course the ship will move - but not much...

I think it's the Earth moving very slightly; you can't compress water... 😉

HMS Invincible. Got drafted there and thought i would hate it (having spent all my previous sea time on small ships flights on R.F.A's), in the end i was sad to leave the old girl!

R 05 not nine to five

[b]Attention Ark Fans.[/b]

I have a very, and I mean very, vague recollection of this TV programme:

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Re-released on Amazon on Mar 11. My father-in-law flew Gannets of of that particular Ark so I think I'll be getting him a copy for us to watch.

From the 70's, when we had proper [url= http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5lpja_ark-royal-traps_tech ]Carrier aviation.[/url]

I'm with the carrier fans, I worked on Ark Royal for a couple of years.

Even now the thought of 100,000 shaft horsepower from the 4 Olympus TM3B engines driving into the 2 David Brown double helical, triple reduction, reversing gearboxes leads to a stirring in places that don't need stirring...

Sonor - Member
From the 70's, when we had proper Carrier aviation.

That was birlliant. Thanks.

Aw man. That video made me jealous i never got to work with those aircraft. Sea Harriers and Invincible class carriers were ace. But that IS naval avaiation right there.

Some of the British WW2 designs were very elegant.

Personal favourites would be the T Class subs and war emergency classes destroyers. My father worked on post war modernisations of both these classes

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HMS Teazer - T Class War Emergency Destroyer

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T Class submarine before streamlining

Of the more recent Navy, I remember these two coming home from the Falklands...

HMS Argonaut
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and HMS Arrow
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We wondered what the hell all the noise was at school - but the Red Arrows had decided to stage a flypast for their Navy namesake

love the fact that those puppies share their engines with Vulcan bombers and Intercity 125s

Ha - no...

The carrier, and Type 21 and 22 frigates, plus type 42 destroyers used RR Olympus engines similar to Vulcan / Concorde, but sadly the train used a diesel engine derived from Navy minesweepers and patrol boats - the Paxman Valenta.

Certainly a lot more elegant than HMS Daring above, that's one ugly warship!

When it comes to putting your point across in a forthright and indisputable manner, this is a pretty good example:

Unless the person you're trying to put the point across to has one of these...

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The carrier, and Type 21 and 22 frigates, plus type 42 destroyers used RR Olympus engines similar to Vulcan / Concorde, but sadly the train used a diesel engine derived from Navy minesweepers and patrol boats - the Paxman Valenta.

The carriers did have 8 Paxman Valenta engines fitted and bolted to a 450v generator so they were only there for electrical generation purposes. These engines were V16 twin turbo engines capable of producing 2.1MW each but the system was entirely separate from the propulsion line.

Certainly a lot more elegant than HMS Daring above, that's one ugly warship!

Easy tiger, i'm on the 5th of this type and she'll get upset if she hears talk like that 😆 Their appearance certainly divides opinion though!

One of the guys I cycle with was on Argonaut when it came back from the Falklands ... oh the stories he could tell 🙂

I notice the sceptics have sent a USN Ponce to offshore Libya

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HMS Hood. My great uncle is still on it.

Grandfather was on the HMS Hood, was moved to another ship at its final port call before it was sunk by the Bismark. Lucky bastard.... Died of cancer 27 years ago. 🙁

I love the Russian Typhoon class subermarine.

They have a swimming pool; how cool is that?

Disappointed that on a forum that can be as anally retentive as STW, that nobody's pointed out that subs aren't ships!

Interesting to see the references to Warspite and Hood.

My great uncle was on destroyers during WW2, including at Narvik with the Warspite.

His boat (HMS Echo) was also part of the escort for Hood during the engagement with Bismark and Prinz Eugen.

I always remember him recounting how the destroyers got left behind by the battelcruiser as they could not keep up in the heavy weather. He reckoned they were leaping out of the waves back to the bridge / funnel and one damaged / corrugated her hull, so they had to slow down.

After Hood was sunk they were sent in to rescue survivors. Echo didn't pick up any. Sister ship Electra picked up 3... out of 1400.

Anyway, HMS Echo, one of the hard working little ships...
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Electra

After the war he transferred to RFA ocean going tugs...

...they lost the tow on Warspite (didn't really want her going to scrap after having the joint highest Battle Honours of any RN boat in WW2...

HMS Warspite at Prussia Cove, Cornwall...ooops...
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nimitz

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uk's new aircraft carrier?

Monitors

A weapons system for our financially constrained time???

Big gun - small ship

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PS, dont tell Daviv Cameron

My dad served aboard a few, but this was his favourite. HMS Indomitable. I must persuade him to let me scan and upload his photos to the naval sites, his are better than any on the web.

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I served on 3 minesweepers,hms dulverton,hms Ramsey and hms chiddingfold,all 3 pretty good ships but I think my favourite was dulverton which I did 18 month on in northern Ireland on boarding patrols,Ramsey was good,shame the captain was a total cock though,he ended up getting booted out for bullying and was on the front page of the sun for it.

what trades was every one?

uk's new aircraft carrier?

No. That one has a plane...

OM(MW)1,in other words a dabber.

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And, overnight, every other ship became obselete. Including the rest of the Royal Navy unfortunately.

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HMS Starling, flagship of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_John_Walker ]F J Walker[/url] (RN).

Got my medical on 21st, applying as a sea man specialist 🙄

Not a bad branch to join,just hope you're good at cleaning and painting!

Got my medical on 21st, applying as a [i][b]sea man specialist[/b][/i]

Oh come on!!

But seriously? You'll have a great life. I spent the best years of my life crewing the Robert Eaves. Had some close shaves in there too. Be ready for anything

looking forward to it! looking forward to getting my kocksens cert and doing all the weapons
training (really enjoyed shooting in cadets). Where you a seaman spesh?

Coxswain or cox'n

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hms_bulwark.htm

My Uncle Peter was on the Bulwark, I'm dead proud of him & I'm 54! He joined up at 17 as a 3rd class stoker & retired as a Fleet Chief Petty Officer 32 years later, one of the 1st to be promoted to that rank.

Coxswain

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HMS Coventry, 25 May 1982. My brother was on board at that moment, two decks down. Took him twenty minutes to get overboard.

as it stands my biggest fear is drowning in darkness.......

You want to join as a minewarfare rate,do all seaman spec stuff and loads more,on a big ship you're just a number.

Does this count?
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lol
Joebones FAILS at getting a picture to come off facebook?

i hate the new slideshow thing, youu have to go into the page html inspector thing to drag out the blurdy url

There will be alot of cleaning and painting involved as a seaman specialist, how do you think the ship stays clean and maintained? But there is also alot of other stuff, seamanship, firefighting, damage control, boat cox'n, weapons, etc etc. Basic training is full of BS to get you knocked into shape and conditioned to life onboard, however nothing can prepare you for your first draft. And expect to get the mickey taken out of you when you join your first ship, I dont think you can really know what to expect life is like onboard until you get your first draft, it'll be hard the first few months until you settle in.

I was on big ships (Invincible) and small ships (Patrol Boat) and there is a vast difference between the culture onboard each. However, I managed to get out of the seaman branch, so I had some more interesting experiences than most.

I had some epic times and went to some epic places, (been to both artic circle and Antartica, not many people can say that), crossed the equater, chased drug and gun runners (even caught a couple) and drunk far, far more than I ever should have.

You'll have some great times and mates.

Most important thing though, a sense of humour, because beleive me, your going to need it.

And learn to play uckers!

Just a shame joannas isn't there for you when you get to Pompey,the most legendary nightclub ever,can't believe that place shut down,don't know how the matelots get on down there now!

Whaaaat? They've shut down the Royal Navy school of dancing! Must be the cutbacks. Where will impressionable young matelots go to have sexual relations with older embittered (but most importantly at sea) matelots wifes?

Oh and AEM (AE) by the way. Navy by choice Fleet Air Arm by the grace of god... so on and so forth.

Hope everything goes alright for you with regards to joining up mate.

Just listen to the other guys once you get your first sea draft. Don't gob off too much and don't piss off the killick of the mess. Do those things and you shouldn't have to buy too many crates.#

And don't forget to pay your bunk light bill 😉

Fourcrossjohn

Hope to see you in the Fleet. However, and not meaning to be a killjoy, but if weapon training is your main focus you'd be better off becoming a Warfare Specialist and then specialising AWW. With the new BCC firing qualifications coming in you're not likely to touch a gun that often after basic training in the Seaman Specialist Branch. Spec is a varied and interesting job though with a better than average chance of promotion, so go for it and enjoy yourself.

Joanna's shut!!!next you'll be telling me that diamond Lil's is shut. Where do the young matelots go for their education now??

At least Charlies bar is still in Gib, however, thats not as special as it was, now the Navy moved out of Gib.

They've shut down the Royal Navy school of dancing

Let's be honest, Jo's isn't a great loss. AFAIK Emma's in Gosport, Jester's in Guz & Harbour Lights are all still going though.

Andy

i hate the new slideshow thing, youu have to go into the page html inspector thing to drag out the blurdy url

Hit F5 😉