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Slightly off topic but I visited HMS Caroline in Belfast yesterday. If you haven't seen it it's well worth the trip. I had a great RNR guide who had served on HMS Antelope in the Falklands. Very knowledgeable about the Naval Service as well.“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Thucydides
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Hello Cork 🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/ML7yPUaVac
— HMS Defender (@HMSDefender) November 23, 2018
Thats nice.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by na grohmità View PostHello Cork 🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/ML7yPUaVac
— HMS Defender (@HMSDefender) November 23, 2018
Thats nice.
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Originally posted by ancientmariner View PostIt is probably the only berth available that provides location security, easily controlled by the Gardai, and keeps the " heroes " at bay. The captain will be happy but the run ashore will be dire unless buses are laid on. It is all part of the Marine Spatial Plan. No room for the Naval Service or visiting naval Ships.
I see her skipper meeting the FOCNS in the wardroom earlier. No doubt the plan is to empty it later.
Must really stick in the craw of the shinner camp in Passage to see this literally on their doorstep, yet still out of reach.
As for the run ashore, the railway station in Carrigaloe should bring them where they need to go. I'm sure they have walked further in quest of a pint.
Today #FOCNS welcomed @RoyalNavy Commander Richard Hewitt, Officer Commanding @HMSDefender to #Haulbowline Naval Base #Cork. This visit was part of the traditional Calls of Protocol made by the Captains of foreign #warships when they arrive in @corkharbour @PortofCork pic.twitter.com/piBQwJP436
— Irish Naval Service (@naval_service) November 23, 2018
Last edited by na grohmiti; 23 November 2018, 21:15.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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Originally posted by ancientmariner View PostIt is probably the only berth available that provides location security, easily controlled by the Gardai, and keeps the " heroes " at bay. The captain will be happy but the run ashore will be dire unless buses are laid on. It is all part of the Marine Spatial Plan. No room for the Naval Service or visiting naval Ships.
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Well we have't had a naval visit in ages, and now they all come at once.
Not a visit per se, but a NATO exercise, off the South East coast.
Currently visible on AIS off Dungarvan (you might even see them from high ground) are HMS Albion, HMS Duncan, HNLMS Rotterdam, HNLMS Johann De Witt. HMS Queen Elizabeth is there too, with USMC F35 embarked. Earlier French Rafales practices anti Ship attacks on Albion.
French Rafale jets launched an assault against Royal Navy flagship HMS Albion as her task group passed the Brittany peninsula. The exercise was designed to allow French pilots to practise their anti-ship tactics and the Royal Navy to practice https://t.co/Wt6gcfCFfW
— UK Defence Journal (@UKDefJournal) September 18, 2020For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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[QUOTE=na grohmiti;480246]Well we have't had a naval visit in ages, and now they all come at once.
Not a visit per se, but a NATO exercise, off the South East coast.
Currently visible on AIS off Dungarvan (you might even see them from high ground) are HMS Albion, HMS Duncan, HNLMS Rotterdam, HNLMS Johann De Witt. HMS Queen Elizabeth is there too, with USMC F35 embarked. Earlier French Rafales practices anti Ship attacks on Albion.
I see ALBION , Duncan , and an unnamed Belgian Vessel south of Dungarvan , I also see Celtic Isle ( tug) beside a FV Carrick . There must be a tow under way. The remnants of the NATO Exercise seem to be within our EEZ . I wonder did CASA overfly?
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Celtic Isle is one of the Standby for Kinsale Gas Platform and FS Carrick is part of the Decommissioning of the Kinsale Platforms.
I just noticed that the AIS plots for those vessels is now 23 hours old, and that was the last signal received before they went dark. Liz is already back in the Solent. Presumably they went bright while passing through busy fishing waters.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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