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My one and only trip on a sweeper was on Grainne, got as far as Roches point...towed back.....

Not on Friday nights - I give the poor mite the evening off. He can make up the time by digging my garden over the weekend. #bestemployer...

My telling ya their smuggling booze:biggrin:

You mean you don't have a "chap" to do that?

Still though, 80-82 we had an 8 ship navy (even if we couldn't put all of them to sea).

The only time apart from acceptance testing that the UW tanks have been used are to ferry aircraft to Switzerland as it negates a stop in France on...

Yeah, I thought that - they normally only fly about once a fortnight, and they are travelling to, and representing the state at, probably the largest...

Standard drills. Have cover story in place at all times :cool:

Yeah I tried that maths but Setanta was long gone before I joined in 1985 and Eithne had only been in service 12 months at that point....and Banba...

My son was at RIAT, He spoke to the pilots, the PC9M's came with one set of drop tanks on one & one with no drop tanks as that's just the way the...

When was Setanta paid off? I have memories of her still cluttering up the basin after Eithne entered service. So she would have been in service in...

I get the feeling that the future ships will need to be at least on the blocks before they decommission anything........but only as long as the...

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1019564172361850881

Pics on, Cobh Edition Face Book page .

Some wag reckoned she drifted in on the tide!...Oddly enough I haven't seen any photos of her either alongside or comming up the harbour!

https://saabgroup.com/globalassets/corporate/media-news-press-stories/naval-press-tour-2017/presentation-mcm-underwater-systems-mcm-nov-2017_2.pdf ...

They're defecting , Red October type of thing.

The technology is fairly mature at this stage but the Defence Forces is lacking in agile procurement, technically competent personnel to...

The NS was a 7 vessel Navy until Niamh made it 8 in 2001 It remains to be seen if GBS will become a 9th vessel or if Ciara/Orla/Eithne will be...

Well that could be embarrassing...

Any C130s/Atlas/C17 visiting Cork Airport at the minute? Carrying spares

The technology exists https://www.inc.com/video/5-companies-making-anti-drone-technology.html

Amazing that she made it that far seeing she had problems outside Devonport yesterday!

What we actually got is one for one replacements with three of the current fleet looking at retirement in the not to distant future, so if builds for...