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  • #61
    Originally posted by johnhan278 View Post
    Question!

    Who made the call on these horrible Ship names?

    forgive my ignorance.
    Alan Shatter is solely responsible.

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    • #62
      Alan Shatter is totally irresponsible.

      Fixed that for you.
      "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
      Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
      Illegitimi non carborundum

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      • #63
        It must be approaching float out time for P62 at Appledore?

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        • #64
          Originally posted by A/TEL View Post
          Bidford Buzz Website

          "Information received from Capt. Hoad, Bideford Harbour master, that the second vessel for the Irish Navy the LE James Joyce is due to leave the building shed on the 23rd November. (High water is at 18.15)"

          http://bidefordbuzz.org.uk/2014/09/s...eptember-2014/
          RTFT!
          For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by ibenji View Post
            It must be approaching float out time for P62 at Appledore?
            See first post in this thread....

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            • #66
              Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View Post
              VCD was an industrial relations disaster and the overrun was biblical. I knew one of the electricians who worked there and he said that the waste was eyewatering and he knew full well that the Yard would close with no prospect of ever getting more ships out of it.
              They were actually lucky to get Eithne out as the receivers had moved in and she was moved out before she had actually been handed over officially.
              Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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              • #67
                An offshore patrol vessel created for the Irish Navy is floated for the first time.


                "An offshore patrol vessel created for the Irish Navy has been floated for the first time.

                The Irish Naval Service's LÉ James Joyce was constructed at Babcock's Appledore shipyard in north Devon.

                The 90m-long vessel, with a top speed of 23 knots and a range of 6,000 nautical miles, is 92% complete."

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                • #68
                  Great stuff. All we need now is for the government to change the shite name and to order another 8

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                  • #69
                    12 months from keel laying to float out. Delivery expected in another 3-4 months, weather permitting. Maersk had the largest containership in the world Emma Maersk (at the time) built from keel to delivery in 8 months, and that included a fire which delayed things.

                    Methinks the coffee breaks at Babcock are a bit too long.
                    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                    • #70
                      I suspect there was a considerably larger workforce working on the Maersk vessel!

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by na grohmití View Post
                        12 months from keel laying to float out. Delivery expected in another 3-4 months, weather permitting. Maersk had the largest containership in the world Emma Maersk (at the time) built from keel to delivery in 8 months, and that included a fire which delayed things.

                        Methinks the coffee breaks at Babcock are a bit too long.
                        Yet the last three ships from that yard weren't that quick





                        Name Number Type Laid Down Launched Commissioned Status
                        Iver Huitfeldt F361 frigate June 2008 March 2010 January 2011 In Service
                        Peter Willemoes F362 frigate March 2009 December 2010 June 2011 In Service
                        Niels Juel. F363 frigate December 2009 December 2010 November 2011 In Service
                        Last edited by CTU; 23 November 2014, 23:42.
                        It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
                        It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
                        It was a new age...It was the end of history.
                        It was the year everything changed.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by na grohmití View Post
                          12 months from keel laying to float out. Delivery expected in another 3-4 months, weather permitting. Maersk had the largest containership in the world Emma Maersk (at the time) built from keel to delivery in 8 months, and that included a fire which delayed things.

                          Methinks the coffee breaks at Babcock are a bit too long
                          I suspect, that Maresk didn't enter a deal with the shipyard to delay the payments?

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                          • #73
                            Seems we won't be waiting as long this time.
                            le JAMES JOYCE is floated successfully out of the dock.



                            le JAMES JOYCE has been successfully floated out of BABCOCK APPLEDORE drydock onto the fitting out berth at the Middle Yard Appledore.

                            Tugs WILLANNE from Williams shipping was at the stern together with the LUNDY PUFFIN. Weather conditions were excellent with a light northerly wind and it was a clear night.

                            The ship had electrical power with powerful search lights.

                            TDC Pilots Roger Hoad and Paul Gyurgyak conned the ship out of the dock after dark this evening. The shipyard crew soon had the ship let go from the covered yard when the required clearance over the cill was available about 25 mins before high tide.

                            The ship was towed out sternfirst down the yard approach channel, and swung in the river, before being towed to the fitting out berth.

                            She was alongside and all fast soon after high water. Her propellors are the deepest part of the ship, and she has stabiliser fins protruding either side of the hull.

                            TDC Pilot boat Two Rivers II illuminated the relavant marks, and boarded and landed the Pilots to the ship, via the LUNDY PUFFIN.

                            The shipyard indicated that she was farther advanced at launch than the last sister ship. A representative from the Irish Navy and the shipyard say that she will be ready for sea trials at the end of February.

                            The next in the series is soon to be under construction, after a large barge is brought into the shipyard to load some huge aircraft carrier sections for ROSYTH that are ready.


                            For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Rhodes View Post
                              Alan Shatter is solely responsible.
                              I know its supposed to be unlucky,but could someone not rescind the decision on the names, and rename in the tradition of Irish mythology?

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