HMS Opossum (S19) and HMS Otus (S18) at Gosport 9/4/91 after returning from Ops during the (1st) Gulf War... From a time before we had to start numbering the wars in that region...
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USS Ingersoll (DD990) after coming off second best against M/V Matsumi Maru No7 in the Malacca Strait on 20/6/92. Seen at Sembawang on 9/7/92. Just a reminder that if the OOW has a bad day, everyone has a bad day. So keep looking out those windows and apply those ColRegs...
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With CSG25 due to arrive at Singapore. A throw back to the Orient 92 deployment, with HMS Newcastle (D87), HMS Invincible (R05) and RFA Olwen (A122) at Sembawang on 9/7/92. #warships #royalnavy #RFA

Ukraine...

Wild night in the Dover Straits. Some serious thunder and lightning!

HNoMS Otto Sverdrup (F312) in the Dover Straits 13/6/25

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Marine Nationale Borda Class survey ship La Place (A793) off Calais 11/6/25.
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Marine Nationale Borda Class survey ship Laperouse (A791) at Calais 7/6/25
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New Marine Nationale OPV Augusta Techer (P781) leaving a wet Calais 5/6/25

For all the headlines from todays SDR, this is HMS Audacious at Devonport in July last year. Since then they've finally moved into dock, but this is the second newest Astute and it was last operational in April 2023... Without solving todays problems, talk of upto 12 is just fantasy fleet building.

Ah if only they'd had different colour tarpaulin, then they'd have gotten away with it...

They will be replaced by new seafarers & the ship will carry on sailing with its minimum crew & clock starts ticking until the next time an OOW falls asleep, perhaps with more tragic results. end./

They will vow to take steps to prevent it occurring again (perhaps a second watchkeeping alarm?!?). But in truth all that will happen is the OOW will be sacked and perhaps also the Captain for allowing it to happen. 4./

Finally the investigators will issue their report which will almost certainly mention fatigue and the dangers of the working pattern that small crews have to do. The Governments/companies involved will all wring their hands and be horrified that such an accident could happen 3./

The result is the OOW falls asleep, misses the waypoint & the ship runs aground. Happily no one is injured, so it becomes an amusing story in the media for a few days, before disappearing. 2./

Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden Johan Helberg says he was "quite astonished" to look out of his window and see the vessel.

I think all seafarers can already take an educated guess on the cause of this accident. The ship had 16 crew, which almost certainly equals the OOW working 6on/6off with the accumulating and crippling fatigue that comes with it. 1./

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Sounds like a mistake whilst trying to launch. So presumably this is an incident involving hull 2, rather than the lead ship Choe Hyon.

No it's based at Saint-Pierre et Miquelon.

That ship is still years from entering service, so other than a quick PR boost, it's difficult to see what Ukraine gain by using valuable resources in attacking it.

Oh dear it looks like the 69% who agree that Le Pen has been fairly convicted for fraud, have more sense than the few who bothered to turn up to the rally in support of her lies and fake outrage...

Thanks for the memories, Sir.
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Operation Jubilee... I've spent 20+ years going through the various archives... Now I just need to get around to writing that definitive book on the subject...

Future Belgian Navy City-class mine countermeasures vessels BNS Oostende (M940) and BNS Tournai (M941) and future Royal Netherlands Navy Vlissingen-class mine countermeasures vessel HNLMS Vlissingen (M840) under construction in Concarneau - November 28, 2024

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From my Twitter account.

Looks like the ship is carrying two Runnymede Class LCU's. I wonder if they're the ex Gaza pier ones, that had been at Rota for some time.

Grim times... Good leadership is about making the right call, even if it has consequences... Hell even making the wrong call, is better than ducking the issue and making none... As the famous quote says 'the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men [and women] to do nothing'...

The Dawn Sturgess inquiry opened today in Salisbury. It’s examining the circs of her death & also of the poisoning attempt on Sergei Skripal. We’re going to learn a lot more about the GRU operation - even today we saw a much more detailed timeline, but also many questions 1/

True, though the numbers involved would probably be small, so the effect would likely be limited. Though as it seems neither the US, UK, France or Germany have any plans to change their policies, I guess Ukraine will just have to continue to focus on improving their own long range weapon programs.

Whilst other than the Kursk offensive, considering the battlefield numerical imbalance between Russia and Ukraine, they have few options of escalation. And considering the success they're having with UAVs the long range missile saga seems more a political issue, than one with a real military benefit