HMS Astute run aground

[andy400]

Oh FFS! Another grounding. And our newest, shiniest bit of kit too.

What are we teaching our navigators these days!!?!

[Odie]

andy400 said:

Oh FFS! Another grounding. And our newest, shiniest bit of kit too.

What are we teaching our navigators these days!!?!

Thats gonna seriously fk up her stealthiness... But these things happen.

[rhinochopig]

Thread already running in boats, planes, et.

[andy400]

rhinochopig said:

Thread already running in boats, planes, et.

Bugger, and there was me thinking it qualified as 'news'.

[Corsair7]

rhinochopig said:

Thread already running in boats, planes, et.

Daft place for it. Will these nerds not understand the difference between an 'interest' and a 'current affair'...?

[Puggit]

Well I guess it's not off the Falklands then...

[thatone1967]

Puggit said:

Well I guess it's not off the Falklands then...

Could be a smoke screen...

[Fittster]

Don't worry I'm sure the RN are well used to this situation:

"In November 2002, Trafalgar ran aground close to Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. She was travelling 50 metres below the surface at more than 14 knots when Lieutenant-Commander Tim Green, a student in the "Perisher" course for new submarine commanders, ordered a course change that took her onto the rocks at Fladda-chuain, a small but well-charted islet

Iit was reported that the crash was caused by the chart being used in the exercise being covered with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it."

[Man-At-Arms]

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

[CoopR]

Fittster said:

it was reported that the crash was caused by the chart being used in the exercise being covered with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it."

Now that is irony

[V88Dicky]

Man-At-Arms said:

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

They do have a bit of 'US Civil War Monitor' about them.

[Sonic]

Man-At-Arms said:

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

Someone's probably just opened the hatch. That'll be why they crashed.

[Tunku]

Man-At-Arms said:

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

Are they running Redex through that?

[V88Dicky]

Tunku said:

Man-At-Arms said:

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

Are they running Redex through that?

Just water (steam).

[tubbystu]

Head gasket failure ?

[tuffer]

tubbystu said:

Head gasket failure ?

K Series?

[madala]

Man-At-Arms said:

thatone1967 said:

Could be a smoke screen...

speaking of which, i thought they were nuclear ?
looks like it's something from the Industrial Revolution

....oh shoite run for your lives...I think she is gonna blow....lol....

[5potTurbo]

tuffer said:

tubbystu said:

Head gasket failure ?

K Series?

No. Govt cutbacks meant it only got an A series.
It was a head gasket failure though.

[hidetheelephants]

5potTurbo said:

tuffer said:

tubbystu said:

Head gasket failure ?

K Series?

No. Govt cutbacks meant it only got an A series.
It was a head gasket failure though.

Sorry to be dull; it's just the auxiliary diesel exhaust plume. At least Trafalgar was on exercise when she hit the Isle of Skye, this is just embarrassing, she's not even in service yet. Meandering out of the navigable channel while transiting to/from BUTEC and going properly aground. Words fail me. Many interviews without tea or biscuits will be happening.

[Uncle Fester]

The smoke is someone's career going up...