TV Series about HMS Illustrious

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I be having a look at the program as Illustrious is the only warship have had a look round and seen what its like on 20Ton carrier.
 
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excellent news,ill be glued to the set....shame there wont be any sea harriers on there,just the harrier gr7's with no radar(back to the 40's!):lul
 
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Too bad this seems to be a UK only show, recently their was a "warts and all" documentary about the USS Nimitz's 2005 deployment on US TV (I've heard other countries got it though) and it was quite good since it was about the crew and not the ship.
I'd love to see this show just to compare the 2.
 
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Well, I'm 3/4's way thru the 1st episode, & I'm impressed !

WARTS & ALL!!

Shows just wot the guys have to do & have to endure, WRT the equipment they're using. Also highlights how hard FOST are too, not like their reputation doesn't proceed them anyway!

Part of the reason UK RN is one of the best navies in the world...


Looks like I'm gonna be hooked !

SA :D
 
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davros

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yeah it was good, I have the Sailor series on dvd and it seemed to me that there was much more discipline back in the 70's compared to now, and i also found it cool to compare how cramped the old Ark was to Illustrious it was like a ghost ship.
 
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I saw the 1st episode two didn't realize how nice it was for the officers :p:. Nice how it shows how complex a ship is with all that equipment to go wrong. Will be watching more
 
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i saw that show last night it was very good i did not know that the new crew had to sleep in very small rooms like that
 
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HMS Illustrious was in Istanbul during Her Majesty's visit to Turkey. The crews undisciplined night-outs created a minor scandal and a minor accident almost cost the British Navy a brand new EH-101. According to the newspapers the cable which connected the vehicle that was pulling one of the EH-101s snapped and the vehicle fell of to Bosporus with the sailor in it. The EH-101 was saved by luck when it stopped moving just at the edge of the deck. The sailor was saved but the vehicle had to wait for 4 days in the sea until Her Majesty left for UK. The vehicle was saved by a crane from the bottom of the sea and the ship left Istanbul a few days ago. :)
 
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Yeah back on the old Ark when you got real drunk you where locked up had pay deducted and had leave stopped I cant say what it is really like on board as i haven't been in the Navy but it did seem to me they were a lot more easy on them on the Illustrious.
Also the CVF's will have a crew about the same size as the invincible class everyone is gonna have there own room with on suite shower.
 
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davros said:
Yeah back on the old Ark when you got real drunk you where locked up had pay deducted and had leave stopped I cant say what it is really like on board as i haven't been in the Navy but it did seem to me they were a lot more easy on them on the Illustrious.
Also the CVF's will have a crew about the same size as the invincible class everyone is gonna have there own room with on suite shower.
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I was thinking that when I was watching the program how much more space they would have on the CVF as nearly three times the size
 
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beleg

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davros said:
Yeah back on the old Ark when you got real drunk you where locked up had pay deducted and had leave stopped I cant say what it is really like on board as i haven't been in the Navy but it did seem to me they were a lot more easy on them on the Illustrious.
Also the CVF's will have a crew about the same size as the invincible class everyone is gonna have there own room with on suite shower.
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Well things got further than being really drunk to explicit exhibitionism done by male and female soldiers... I don't know how soldiers are allowed to do that whether they are drunk or not. That would be an end of military career for officers/ncos in Turkey , and for conscripts well your 1.5 year military service would probably not end for the rest of the decade :D

I got a photo of the accident but its from a news paper so scan would be bad but the chopper was indeed on the brink of falling to sea.
 
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Too bad this seems to be a UK only show, recently their was a "warts and all" documentary about the USS Nimitz's 2005 deployment on US TV (I've heard other countries got it though) and it was quite good since it was about the crew and not the ship.
I'd love to see this show just to compare the 2.
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Don't have PBS. Watch the shows on your home computer around the world.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm

I wished BBC5 had episodes on the web.
 
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Sea Toby said:
Don't have PBS. Watch the shows on your home computer around the world.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/carrier/full_episodes.htm

I wished BBC5 had episodes on the web.
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You lucky Kiwi you, it would let me watch it. Comes up with a message saying im in the wrong region :(

fortunatley a lot of it seems to be on good old YouTube.

I agree about BBC5 webcasting it but what we really need is some of our british friends to tape it and up it on YouTube for us poor colonials.......HintHint...NudgeNudge.....:smoker
 
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You lucky Kiwi you, it would let me watch it. Comes up with a message saying im in the wrong region :(

fortunatley a lot of it seems to be on good old YouTube.

I agree about BBC5 webcasting it but what we really need is some of our british friends to tape it and up it on YouTube for us poor colonials.......HintHint...NudgeNudge.....:smoker
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Well don't I look silly....Sorry Sea Toby I thought you where a New Zealander. Just worked that one out with one of your posts on a different thread.
My profuse apologies:rolleyes: ........Not that their is anything wrong with being a Kiwi......:p:
 
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