Chinese 'spy ship' slips into Auckland - National - NZ Herald NewsExcellent choice.
The crowds will turnout in their thousands and give the crew a warm welcome ..... and give Joe Public the opportunity to colourfully share his opinions towards the protesters.
None of the lefties out protesting against that ship. Bunch of hypocrites. :mad Probably no shore leave for the sailors on board either, so they miss out on the fleshpots of Auckland :haha There wasn't when their destroyers were here last time.
Pleased that the NZ Herald article did indicate there is a degree of inconsistency from those opposed to the visit of warships.
https://www.gets.govt.nz/NZDF/ExternalTenderDetails.htm?id=7784401
Ah yes that certainly makes sense - and yes a containerised version that can be swapped between vessels is clever thinking.
The Canadian MCDV programme had two containerised two-compartment recompression chambers built (shared between 12 ships, in 2 fleets), by a company called Fullerton & Sherwood (more correctly Fullerton Sherwood Engineering Ltd I think). I believe they had a 6-person capacity. This was early in the MCDV's RCN service, probably mid-1990s.
A quick hunt on google shows that company is an outpost of a German family-owned business that has been making diving gear for over a century. Presumably they know what they are doing by now!
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/mil-log/hms-westminster-undergoes-refit/
Not exactly, she's been in refit since October 2014.
Glad to see such a position established. I've thought for a while that the RNZN top brass has tended to be mostly Seaman branch officers (ie ship-drivers) and that the engineers never seem to make it to the top. Naval engineering is one of the most technically difficult disciplines there is; perhaps only submarines & spacecraft are more challenging. My only concern would be - is the small RNZN engineering branch big enough to run it's own operation (without calling in help from civilian contractors or secondments from a larger force)? Does it have enough expertise? With so many ship classes (in ones and twos), the RNZN needs all the engineering help it can get. I've recently been reading D.K Brown's excellent history of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors (A Century of Naval Construction, 1983) - not even the RN in its hey-day tried to do this in-house - the constructors were civilians, as were the scientists who did much of the development. .
Depends on the design of the ship, FFG-7, Arleigh Burkes, F-100 etc. have removal routes for their GTs using a combination of fixed and removable rails up through the funnels. The ANZACs however require semi disassembly of the GT and I believe the removal / cutting of soft patches to remove their GT. My understanding was that the thinking was that the GT was only for boost so major work or replacement wouldn't be required that often, as per usual this didn't work out to be the case.
Fair point. I was just a bit amused by one release saying various bits of equipment were being fitted, and a second release a few days later announcing that installation was complete.
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She has just been in Darwin for a couple of weeks R&R, so she's going the wrong way.
