Thread: Sub in town

Originally Posted by justinc

Pheeny is safe up in Launceston Diana, at least he is 188km away when the thing goes up!! I'm not so lucky though, we're only 15k from the thing!!

JC

Hmmmmmm Launceston - and that would be where?

Perhaps I need to take a ferry ride and improve my geometry!

Diana

Surprised the thing even made it to Tasmania, bet they towed it there, they dare take them underwater they dont know if they will come up again, maybe the battery went flat!, maybe you duck down with the Rangey and the jumpa leads and get it going for them Tim.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Hmmmmmm Launceston - and that would be where?

Perhaps I need to take a ferry ride and improve my geometry!

Diana

You're obviously in need of a ferry trip to improve your geography.
By all means come on down! Bring a landy and we'll show you some of Tas.






JC

I hope the pic is there for u to see now.
PS the orange overalls did not fit.
ASIO wanted to buy the RRover of me but I didnt need 1,000,000 allready happy.

The best car sticker I saw - actually it was texta writing, was a white ford ute banged around a lot that had written on the tailgate " THIS IS A COLLINS CLASS UTE" funny thing also was he had a landrover logo sticker too.
I think that sub saw the lights on, and stopped to ask directions to NZ.

Originally Posted by graceysdad

Surprised the thing even made it to Tasmania, bet they towed it there, they dare take them underwater they dont know if they will come up again, maybe the battery went flat!, maybe you duck down with the Rangey and the jumpa leads and get it going for them Tim.

The collins class is now along way from the 'dude-sub' days and is widely recognised as one of the most advanced convential submarines in the world. It has no rival in terms in operational range and indiscretion ratio. A red faced USN aircraft carrier skipper will tell you as much when one of our boats penitrated their defence screen and got in close enough for a kill. Had the periscope pictures to prove it. Looking back, for Australia to build it's own class of submarine was ambitious on the same scale as the snowy river scheme. And in terms poorly managed defence projects, the Collins class is down at number 12 in terms of overall cost blow-out and project delays.

The Collins class deserves a much better reputation.

More info on HMAS Collins visit to tassie here:
Taking a deeper look at the Navy on HMAS Collins. 10 Feb 2008. ABC Hobart. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

PS, brings back memories of me sitting on top of the sail on HMAS Orion (Oberon class) coming down the derwent into Hobart in 1995