At HMS Collingwood open day yesterday with nipper and the rest of the family, looking at flooding up soon and back to Pompey early August, apparently.

I do believe that when she finally floats out she'll be coming direct to Pompey, which has pleased nipper as he was not looking forward to transporting 4 years worth of his tat from Rosyth!

Nice pic of the new RFA ship in the foreground there.

Nice day to go down the hotwalls to watch her come in tomorrow, perhaps have a paddle in the sea!

Looks like nippers stint on PWLS may be over sooner than his next draft officially starts, apparently they have 10 gunners on board with feck all for them to do. Let off early for good behaviour?

Rumours were the corridors between compartments on PWLS were enlarged for Commando deployments, unless nipper sneaks aboard QNLZ and dolly steps the width and reports the differences...

serge750 wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 21:25 nice to see RN on a fixed wing aircraft hope the future drones are not a joint force.....maybe the F35 will be transfered when tempest delivers & the raf want more shiney new toys

...are you lighting the touch paper again.

Britain to send an aircraft carrier to the Indo-Pacific in 2025 https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2023/05/18/britain-to-send-an-aircraft-carrier-to-the-indo-pacific-in-2025/ QE or POW? If the POW is ready for it, it would be a good confidence boaster after the last few years to shake off so...

QNLZ off out on Sunday evening.

Happy to be proven wrong here but wouldn't she need to be out of dry dock and back down to Portsmouth for at least a few weeks before deploying in August? She is due out at sea for about 4 weeks, once she has left Rosyth, before heading back to Pompey. I very much doubt she will deploy this year, b...

https://www.navylookout.com/repairs-to-hms-prince-of-wales-will-not-prevent-return-to-operations-this-summer/ HMS Prince of Wales will return to Portsmouth in the next few months for some final maintenance work and the RN is confident she will be ready to begin her programme in August. Someones con...

Such a shame for Nipper (and everyone else on PoW)... Hope whatever he does in the future helps to make up for the massive disappointment. His next draft is based at Semaphore Tower in HMNB Portsmouth...in his own words Doing rounds of all the dead ships and helping out where needed in the Dockyard...

There is a lot of truth in the article, certainly knew about the lift chains a while back. All phalanx gone, but then they would not be needed whilst in dry dock for a continued maintenance I guess. Not sure ship will be sailing soon for other issues with props and shafts, certainly nipper will be u...

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 08:40 A pity! It sounds as if he has been persuaded to remain in the Senior Service though.

Indeed, I just pointed out the opportunities within it, shore and ship based. Fingers crossed.

serge750 wrote: ↑11 Mar 2023, 16:57 could he transfer to QE ?.........

Not sure, knowing his luck, he'll end up on one of the new Frigates being built in Scotland!

Have you seen Victory at the moment, you need to be able to rip off rotten wood and then sit and stare whilst the chain of command decides if they are able to replace it or not!

Ok, not from nipper so feel ok to post here. 'Rumours' from the boatyard is that a step was missed on the alignment algorithms/formula for the prop shafts on PWLS prior to build, due to leave of a worker and when picked up it was missed. When the enter keyed was pressed, it didn't recognise a step h...

QNLZ coming back in tomorrow afternoon.

'The HMS Prince Of Wales'...petty, I know, but that really irritates me!

Scimitar54 wrote: ↑31 Jan 2023, 22:42The crew ?

hmm, they seem to be working well in Dunfermline most weekends!

HMS Prince of Wales Had two faulty couplings.................. https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1620395239218241538?s=20&t=lNmfuvjHLfB5WqkK1Mtyyg Indeed, nipper was expecting to be back up in Rosyth not long after returning to Pompey once the starboard shaft was fixed. According to the ad...

bobp wrote: ↑31 Jan 2023, 16:03 HMS Prince of Wales Had two faulty couplings..................

Indeed, nipper was expecting to be back up in Rosyth not long after returning to Pompey once the starboard shaft was fixed.

QNLZ off out late afternoon today, rumours she has been fitted with a tow bar to drag PWLS back to port are unconfirmed by the MOD.

Good article on PWLS in the Times about her recent battles. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbf02110-98a9-11ed-a130-baced48eb788?shareToken=64e9461a7e92b613ad1f4c3cbf187e8f Indeed, initial intro a bit misleading as it suggests she has been in situ for all the 3 years, she has done some sea milea...

Largely losing stealth?? No, not at all. They will be designed to minimize their additional RCS as well as, errrr ... being droppable To be fair External Tanks are rarely dropped these days except in extremis. And even then the paperwork when you get back is going to be painful... I'm pretty sure t...