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It says a lot about the so called "Technical Experts" who surveyed her & she must have done sea trials & technical inspections so how come Oz not only bought a lemon but paid for their "junket" possibly at the Ritz? [smilebigeye]Quote:
The transformer problem was not detected during a major survey prior to the government buying the relatively new ship from Britain's Royal Navy.
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Originally Posted by 4bee
Any thing is possible, but the survey was carried out by RN engineers.
Here is some nice new frigates. BAE Systems got the gig over Austal [bighmmm]
Hunter Class Frigate Program | BAE Systems | Australia
bob it doesn't matter who did the survey but nice to know though it was RN person-ell (shiny bums or grubby handed hard grafters notwithstanding) but I still cannot understand how this vessel passed the survey to be commissioned into the fleet. Were RAN Engineers looking over their shoulders?Quote:
but the survey was carried out by RN engineers.
I have a dreaded feeling in my water that this venture into using Pods will be fraught with never ending problems & doesn't just apply to RAN vessels, as many Cruise ships relying on this propulsion method have also come to grief around the world, & some have also been delayed in Adelaide, one being the Queen Mary 2 I think it was (?) prior to a cruise to WA a couple of years back on it's way back to the UK. It sat for a whole day at Outer Harbour being repaired.
Electrically powered they may be but there seems to be a lot of ongoing trouble which is something Oz cannot afford to exist in our Taxpayer funded service & we deserve better.
Emergency Event boats? Send the Mooring Launches. They don't have pods except in the Ration Box for the Nespresso coffee machines.[smilebigeye]
I came across this article, from South Korea. What I found interesting is they are building diesel electric submarines fitted with ballistic missiles.
South Korea Green-Lights Key Naval Projects – Defense Security Monitor
The submarine, interesting.
KSS-III Class
Specifications. 10 SLBM's. on the batch 2.
KSS-III Class
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Originally Posted by 4bee
I have to point out the RAN LHD's are fully operational, and have been for some time. The problem with the pods has been sorted, and pods around the World have no more problems than conventionally powered ships. All new ships and submarines have teething problems, as indicated by the RN's first Astute submarine still sitting alongside, not fully operational, while follow on boats have learned from that and are travelling well. My only reservation about the LHD's is, they would have to have the best defensive armament available, because they a big slab sided block of flats, you couldn't miss them.
[QUOTE=bob10;2905982]It was the Australians who advanced up through the retreating Brits at Villers-Bretonneaux and stopped the German assault.Quote:
Originally Posted by NavyDiver
Colonel Blimps and associated flag wavers and bugle blowers should take note that the only war Australians fought in in defence of Australia was in the South Pacific theatre in 1942-43. All other wars in which Australians fought and died were someone else's war.
Bob, those propulsion systems are complex and by the Law of Colonel Murphy USAAC will have problems simply due to complexity and operating in a hostile environment (salt water). What is wrong with a large powerful modern engine? Have a look at the eight E class container vessels built for Maersk Line. Over 120,000 tons, 13,500 to 15,000 TEU containers, cruise 20+ knots, single diesel engine and shaft, 109,000 horsepower. Then note how the yard in Copenhagen builds them in months. We take years to build small warships.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob10
[QUOTE=Bigbjorn;2906146]Actually the fight for Villers - Bretonneaux was undertaken by 2 Australian Brigades, and 3 English Battalions. The Australians had the most difficult job. In the end, one AIF battalion fixed bayonets and charged with a ferocity that broke the German resistance. [ I think it was the 15th] AIF casualties were high. As for fighting other peoples Wars, Those who did were all volunteers, up to the Vietnam War. The first contingent of colonial Victorians to go overseas to fight were sailors from the Victorian ship, Victoria, to fight in the Maori Wars. Sailors from the Victoria went ashore as ground troops to help in the attack on a Maori PA. [ the Maori melted away, and fought again another day] These were followed by colonial volunteers from Victoria, NSW and Brisbane, who went and fought for the Waikato volunteers. Next came the Chinese Boxer rebellion, the Zulu wars [ by individual volunteers] the Boer War, of Breaker Morant fame, [ if you could call it that.] WW1, then fighting the Russian revolutionaries with the Brits, then WW2, Korea, Malaya, Indonesian Confrontation, Vietnam[ the conscripts time], Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan . This doesn't take into account the Aussies who fought in Rhodesia, or in South Africa's War with Cuba in Angola, or the many who fought with the French Foreign Legion in all parts of French Africa. I may have missed one or two conflicts, including the Frontier Wars. Hard to realise we are really a peace loving Nation. :angel:Quote:
Originally Posted by bob10
Vllers-Bretonneaux. EDIT. My Great Grandfather, and his son, my Grandfather, served in the 49th Qld Battalion , at the battle. How they both came home at the end of the War was a miracle.
Looking back on the battle of Villers-Bretonneux - WWI Centenary - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)