Warship? (TV Documentary, Ch4)

[danno]

I remember a similar show some years ago following the Antarctic patrol ship which culminated in it being declared a total loss due to flooding caused by machinery failure. The end result was replacing it with another less suitable commercial vessel pressed into naval use.

The report into the near loss of the Endurance found that the flooding was due to an unneeded cleaning of a seawater cooling intake filter which flooded which in turn was due to lack of supervision of a non-mech rating who was helping incorrectly refitted the switch poles causing it to open inadvertently . Poor and all as RN machinery is reputed to be this loss was due to human causes.

[spider]

If it's that bad I'm surprised that the RN actually left it air to be honest, sounds utterly shite in terms of promoting the service.

I was chatting to an RN CPO about this the other day.

Apparently whichever gimp was responsible for signing off on the production of this program...signed over absolute editing rights to the people who filmed it.

So what you had was hundreds of hours of footage...trawled for what people want to see.

And unfortunately people aren't interested in military training...

My youngest was quite keen on the Royal Navy...fit...tough...bright...great sportsman...keen to go to sea...travel...its all there...

Then he watched that program you're talking about.

He's applied to join the Army instead.

[danno]

These are doing the Service no service;

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/361112...b-shop-attack/

[The real Jack]

These are doing the Service no service;

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/361112...b-shop-attack/

One of them had been making sexist comments about his girlfriend but the owner is Bengali and speaks a little English so understood what he was saying

You don’t expect behaviour like that from British Royal Navy sailors.

LOL