Maybe they should water down .... oh wait, I guess they tried that and it broke :D
She cannae take it, Captain Kirk! USS Zumwalt breaks down
Weird new warship USS Zumwalt has broken down while on sea trials, three weeks ahead of her formal commissioning ceremony. The futuristic $4.4bn vessel, which features a so-called “tumblehome” hull, suffered a seawater leak into the auxiliary lube oil system for one of her main propeller shafts, according to USNI News. The …
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Wednesday 21st September 2016 16:36 GMT werdsmith
Re: El Reg unit
Red Osprey, Red Falcon and Red Eagle are refurbished, but not by any means new.
The Lymington ferries, Wight Sun, Wight Sky and Wight Light are not that small, 1500 tonne, 65 cars + HGVs, Wight Sun sometimes works on the Portsmouth service.
St. Cecilia, Sl Clare and St. Faith do the Portsmouth-Fishbourne (not Wootton Bridge) route.
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Wednesday 21st September 2016 18:01 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Nomenclature...
boat vs ship: technically, if it's over ~200 feet long (I think that's right), it's a ship. The exception is a submarine, which is called "boat" by tradition, since modern subs (and the ones in WW2 as I recall) are nearly ALL well over 200 feet long. L.A. class is ~360 feet.
thinking of the L.A. class, they came out of the factory with a flaw that later had to be corrected. Future versions were built with the correction. However, a trip to a shipyard was required to fix the problem [it affected top speed, probably shouldn't give details]. So with only 3 ships in the class, this kind of thing really isn't all that uncommon.
Still, it's fun to point fingers and laugh.
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Wednesday 21st September 2016 22:32 GMT peter_dtm
Re: Nomenclature... @bombastic bob
ship - 3 masted sailing vessel
Steam Ship (ss Great Britain; ss British Patience) Steam ship - vessel using steam propulsion (so maybe nuclear as well ? )
RMS (eg the 'Queens' ) Royal Mail Ship
Motor Vessel - uses infernal combustion (diesel for instance)
Motor Tanker - Tank(er) vessel using motor...
other nationalities use different nomenclature to the Brits - like the Russians using 'he' instead of 'she' when talking about ships (and the PC use of 'it' [shudder] )
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Thursday 22nd September 2016 11:28 GMT Jonathan Richards 1
Re: Nomenclature... @peter_dtm
SS doesn't mean what you think it means! (no, it doesn't mean your thing either, Herr Goebels). SS is an abbreviation for Screw Steamship, to distinguish them from paddle steamers.
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Sunday 25th September 2016 06:56 GMT Kurt Meyer
Re: Nomenclature...
@ bombastic bob - Re: The Los Angeles class
"So with only 3 ships in the class ..."
There were 62 boats in the Los Angeles class, 39 of which are still active.
Perhaps you were thinking of the Seawolf class, the successor to the Los Angeles. There are three Seawolf class boats.
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Wednesday 21st September 2016 21:32 GMT GrumpyKiwi
Re: With this tonnage...
The Treaty of Versailles had nothing to say on the size of Battleships apart from that Germany couldn't have any.
That was the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. And it placed no minimum size on them, but rather a maximum size of 35,000 tons standard displacement and a maximum of 16" guns.
By that stage all the obsolete early RN and USN battleships had been retired/scrapped and 23,000 tonnes+ was about the size of even the oldest and least capable battleship.
The treaty DID establish a maximum size of 10,000 tones standard displacement for Cruisers along with an 8" gun size limit.
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Thursday 22nd September 2016 11:15 GMT Jonathan Richards 1
Re: With this tonnage...
> The Treaty of Versailles had nothing to say on the size of Battleships apart from that Germany couldn't have any.
> The treaty DID establish a maximum size of 10,000 tones standard displacement for Cruisers along with an 8" gun size limit.
None of which stopped Germany from building the Panzerschiffe at up to 12,000 tons, with 28cm (11") guns, and all before the Treaty of Versailles was repudiated by the National Socialists.
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Thursday 22nd September 2016 10:06 GMT DropBear
Re: That's what happen when you have a Kirk...
"...gorgeous alien woman who will turn out to be an enemy spy but will do a last-minute heel-face turn..."
Then of course right before the finale a new last-last-minute threat appears and said spy saves the day, the hero's life or both at the cost of her own - this last part is non-negotiable seeing as how having been a baddie is a sin in the eyes of Hollywood that can never possibly be redeemed to a degree that would warrant a happy ending for an ex-spy regardless of how reformed she might be; much as any villain must die of some convenient consequence of his own actions as to not sully the hands of the hero with his murder yet still be satisfactorily dealt with, any reformed baddie absolutely must suffer the heroic version of the same fate so as to not burden the protagonist with any questionable moral choices. Some wholesome mourning and #sadfaces all around is so much better than insinuating that the real world might not be black and white after all...
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