HMS Astute = Cursed Submarine

[Armand2REP]

HMS Astute class incident time-line

December 2007

HMS Astute breaks down with faulty oil pump.

April 2009

Workers are evacuated after a fire breaks out in the conning tower of HMS Astute

May 2009

Reports of problems with vessel's propulsion system which engineers were unable to rectify because of the fire

May 2010

Two week sea trial halted after one days following an electrical fire

August 2010

A technical fault with the anchor on HMS Astute forces it to return to port during another sea trial.


October 2010

HMS Astute runs aground on a shingle bank off the Isle of Skye before being towed free.

An inquiry was launched into how it happened. Suggestions that out of date charts were used to navigate.

November 2010

Reports emerge that HMS Astute was damaged by the tug sent to rescue it after it crashed into it causing tens of millions in damages to the diving plane.

Commander Andy Coles sacked for running Astute aground.

December 2010

Sewage and weapons support systems break down on the first day of a subsequent sea trial.

The launch ceremony of HMS Ambush takes place without being able to move it due to a fault in the machinery needed to lift the submarine.

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and the latest casualties...

A Royal Navy crewman has been shot dead and another is in a life-threatening condition after a shooting on board nuclear submarine HMS Astute.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13014640

 

[Armand2REP]

Oh Gee, let me rehash this wound... Astute can't make 20 knots and now HMS Ambush has a power failure and towed back to port in shame.

Someone please teach these hooligans how to build a submarine



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[drkrn]

but its said these submarines can hear for distances as long as half the world !

is it so advanced?

 

[Armand2REP]

but its said these submarines can hear for distances as long as half the world !

is it so advanced?

It is about as advanced a bricked phone

 

[sayareakd]

They are making subs since WWII still such things.

 

[uvbar]

and they say Russian standards of submarine building are useless

 

[W.G.Ewald]

A Frenchman gloating over the misfortune of a Royal Navy vessel. Really that show no class, Armand2REP. But Nelson's victory still stings, perhaps.

Here is a Frenchman who is a bit more cosmopolitan:

Nelson engages the French again as uniform goes on show in Paris | Culture | The Guardian

"I think it's a wonder," said Emelie Robbe, a curator of the Paris museum's new exhibition on Napoleon and Europe. "It is astonishing that it should be here."...

The coat has been viewed as a sacred relic of British history, soaked in blood on the day that saw one of the greatest naval victories, at Trafalgar, over the combined fleets of France and Spain, and the disaster of the death of the vice-admiral. The hole in the shoulder was pierced by the musket ball of a French sniper perched high in the rigging of the Redoubtable.