Anyone know where RFA Fort Victoria is she’s not at Cammell Lairds and her AIS is turned off

Ron5 wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 14:17

AR9 wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024, 09:09

wirralpete wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024, 23:53 Must have been this one left tranmere (lairds) 12 hours ago Boka Topaz now in Liverpool bay/ Irish Sea

Phew - been past this morning and it wasn’t there just Proteus so was wondering if I was seeing things

Being Liverpool, bet you thought it had been knicked

Yeah said that see above was the OSV Boka Topaz
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9382815

Must have been this one left tranmere (lairds) 12 hours ago Boka Topaz now in Liverpool bay/ Irish Sea

Yeah weird just checked on AIS myself was definitely a blue colour similar ship to Proteus questioning myself now want me to drive down lol And was in the wet basin with one of the Tides weird it’s not showing up

AR9 wrote: ↑14 Jan 2024, 19:47 I’ll have to check tomorrow but when I went to the DIY shop this morning there is another blue ship in Lairds that looks exactly like Proteus

Yeah saw her myself driving past goin over to Liverpool will try take a photo and post on here during the week

Or 2 taps 2 saw 45 2 31’s nice good for us east of suez

And the skills necessary to build from scratch pal

Gotta realise cammell laird already hand in glove with BAe barrow building forward sections of astute and dreadnought if we go with bae design gotta be lairds no chance H&w got skills that lairds have….. 3 fss 6 mrss 10 year build 10 year RFA contract gotta go back to basics chaps

More time lapse for ya Ron

Yeah all them buildings are in use on repair side of yard Does beg the question do ya need to build it and put It together ala the carriers in a dock or could you just build it in the big shed and move it forward as you add blocks to it like they did with RRS David Attenborough And launch it old sch...

Dock 5 was a non starter for QEC carriers due to the priory cos the flight deck was so wide not the FSS
Though could be right for fitting a Goliath crane and strengthening foundations

Ron RRS David Attenborough was launched off the slipway in front of the build hall old school style

Weird I know but beam of tides and waves must be less at dock level than at deck level a wave was definitely in 6 dock few weeks back and also seen a tide in 7 dock which has Diamond in at moment havin engines replaced Will try and take photos at weekend when home https://www.clbh.co.uk/facilities T...

https://www.clbh.co.uk/project-news/modular-construction-expertise-put-cammell-laird-premier-league-shipbuilding https://www.maritimeindustries.org/Member-News/cammell-laird--supporting-britains-hunter-killer-submarine-programme https://www.polarismedia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CammellLaird-...

I agree though no votes in it for Boris on Merseyside lol
Does give a hedge against any Scottish independence referendum in future as well given BAE close ties to lairds they built blocks of QE and POW and blocks of recent Astute subs

How about this for a plan: 1. CL & Bae partner up on a new venture : English Big Docks Inc 2. Dig a big dock in that spare land, big enough for QE/POW, with removable cover in case it rains (I'm a caring employer) 3. Build additional sheds to make blocks & other bits to be dropped into big ...

Confirmation upto 200 aircraft replacing oldest c/d models in their inventory

Jeez thank f@@k for that

Hot tip been covered by announcement in House of Commons today by PM of extra £600m of funding direct from Treasury and £200m carried over from previous year of savings to fund extra astute and dreadnought costs hopefully in year savings will fund extra costs upto rebalancing of mod budget later in ...

Looking at the cgi images could the sea ceptor missiles be the ones located amidships as the strike length silos would surely impact on the mission bay space below? The space on there could surely fit upto 48 ported from each T23. The silos to the rear of the gun raised above the deck would seem mor...

Clyde following in 2019 That will be interesting, with "escort" numbers being stretched and no comparable "guard ship" to step in. That will be interesting, with "escort" numbers being stretched and no comparable "guard ship" to step in. Enterprise again? Sur...

Audacious roll out from Devonshire Dock Hall http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/Easy-does-it-awe-inspiring-sight-of-fourth-Astute-class-boat-to-leave-DDH-in-Barrow-attracts-onlookers-5cc3de9f-980d-4274-be57-08386d44b07 Question for anyone - How long does it take for a boat to go from roll out to 1...

Think we can compete

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