Rum Ration
the Navy Network

**soleil** · 06-05-12, 06:03

Navy's £1 billion warship HMS Dauntless blacked out by a £10 fuse | Mail Online

**flymo** · 06-05-12, 08:16

This is an unbeleivable story. How much are the MOD paying for fuses nowadays? My local hardware shop sells packs of 5 for £2.50..

**trelawney126** · 06-05-12, 08:57

Originally Posted by flymo

This is an unbeleivable story. How much are the MOD paying for fuses nowadays? My local hardware shop sells packs of 5 for £2.50..

Don't think the problem was that simple. I think the problem lies with the UK/French power adapters which are necessary to comply with the requirements of the "Shared Asset" scheme.

(insert smiley)

**Seadog** · 06-05-12, 09:29

I'm not privvy to what happened, nor am I all about on the T45 platform management but this sounds like utter journo invention.

Responding to suggestions that the ship was drifting for several minutes, Naval sources insisted Dauntless was not moving because the Captain ordered that the engines be turned over slowly, allowing the twin propellers to keep the ship stationary.

The engines turned over slowly? WTF?

Blackouts are easy to achieve by accident or design in any ship. A blackout is not shock horror ridicule news unless the ship becomes a casualty because of it. Where there is blame the unfortunate responsible will forever be known as 'The Prince of Darkness'. And it doesn't actually go dark if the batteries have been maintained properly. Fecking journalists

**Naval_Gazer** · 06-05-12, 09:44

Thank goodness someone had a shilling for the meter.

But seriously, two minutes on emergency power supplies is hardly a 'black out'. Sounds more like the sort of routine 'machy break' (machinery breakdown exercise) practiced every day at sea.

**janner** · 06-05-12, 09:47

I'd be looking for whoever fed the Mail the story.

**angrydoc** · 06-05-12, 10:05

Must have been little else to report. I echo Janner's point about who let the Daily Mail know about what sounds like a very minor event.

**Ratcatcher** · 06-05-12, 11:30

Fascinating story; power surge in ship leads to fuse blowing leads to circuit not working until fused replaced. Top notch journalism and a beginner's guide to electric circuitry all in one.

**flymo** · 06-05-12, 12:15

Ahh, the long distant memory of hearing "Generator failure, Generator failure, Generator failure" in the dark. Who would have thought that by plugging the UAA1 into ADAWS without clearing down the 20 stored radars first would cause ADAWS to trip and thus cause a genny failure.

Bad Golly, no jam for you.

**Asst_Ed** · 08-05-12, 14:35

Originally Posted by janner

I'd be looking for whoever fed the Mail the story.

Pretty certain it was in the Times article last week when they were on board; the Times did a much more general feature about the ship and the exercise...