St patricks Day greetings

[Aspman]

Can you imagine my disappointment when I was on my mates 'V' boat (HMS Vengence I think..) and we asked him where the perescope was and he pointed to a monitor in the corner of the control room It still goes up and down you just don't see it. The conning tower was empty too

[dalek]

Originally posted here by MURACU
Still prefer a ship Dalek. At least a ship has a fairly good chance of surviving a hit. For submarines even a near hit can be fatal. Also if the ship does start to go down, unless you are in the engine room, you have even odds of getting off her. Unless it is a gas tanker. Then ,depending on the gas being transported, you have about 30 seconds to get half a mile away. Run forrest run............

Not so,, ships are built as thin as the skin on new cars, did you ever see any of the pictures of the UK frigates during the Falklands, and how exocet missiles launched from Mirages were playing havoc with the ships and it turned out that the majority of the problems with the ships burning so fast, is that they had a lot of 'Aluminum" in their bulkheads, not only is it a soft metal, but when it is flashed it can burn like tungsten, that is why this happened

An Exocet was launched, and it hit the Sheffield. Dud. No explosion. What did happen is that it sat in the superstructure, and the rocket fuel began to burn. It burned so hot that it set the Sheffield’s aluminum superstructure on fire, and it literally melted beneath the feet of the DC crews.

Type 21 Frigates

So I would rather be in a sub at 600 feet, at ultra quiet. A ship is a big fat target, not only from Air to Sea missiles but us...stealth type warriors who cruise the depths looking for victims to....ooops sorry, nodded off....

Hey Aspman, that would be dissapointing, we used to laugh at our lookout officer on the search scope, you got to sit and rotate it around, and in the control room in dark lighting these guys would start snoring so loud you would think we were snorting (charging the batteries)..

[hjack]

Little late but happy paddy's day. I spent mine in Savannah, GA getting trashed! I had to be @ work @ 8am the following morning so I took my last Carbomb @ 3:30 am and started my trek home.......its about a 4 hour drive. Finally got to work (still trashed) and worked till midnight that same day......

Still kinda recovering.........

OPA!

Ry

[nihil]

Well, I called in the Pub today...............it is the only Irish one for some (walking/staggering) around distance................ they had a raffle and an "Irish" quiz on the night with all proceeds going to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute..............which is still responsible for the Republic Of Ireland...........and the only English outfit that is (apart from the Royal Airforce............but that is only after 9/11 ) still responsible for the whole of the British Isles.

So the landlady says "Eileen and yerself won the quiz, Johnno"

"Oh! I said, that's nice, was it close?"..................."No, she says, they were all idjits.........the next only got half of what you did"

I suppose we got 7/10 on the first section (general knowledge), 9 or 10/10 on the second (history), 10/10 on the third (geography & geology) and 16/20 on the recognise the people picture questions.........and we were the only team to recognise Michael Collins, for example............but being related it would possibly have been embarassing not to?

Anyway we have a slap up evening meal as a prize.................