HMS Astute Commissioning into the Royal Navy

HMS Astute was today commissioned into the royal navy:-


http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-events/rn-live/all-news/royal-navys-most-powerful-submarine-gets-royal-approval/*/changeNav/6568

A good news story for the Submarine Service

:lol:

 

Good luck lads, I wish I was part of the crew. Another legend is born!

 

Great!

 

Bless all who sail in her

(ps - bit concerned about the wisdom of dishing out guns to Submariners. Bit like giving fire water to the Indians!)

 

wow...what a piece of kit

 

Just seen the picture on page 14 of the Daily Telegraph of the Duchess.

The Matelot in the middle with the set looks like me as a 24 year old. Poor bugger.

 

Bon Voyage(s)

 

All the best for her new crew

 

Particularly the Dusties. If they read this stuff, they might know what I mean.

 

A great boat. But, and don't quote me on this, I think her pipework and cabling might just reach a tad further than from Glasgow to Dundee.

I hate to pi55 on a party!! Can't wait for a call round!!

 

Woo! That is good news. Bon Voyage!

...now you can dismantle her and make a massive cable-pipe from Glasgow to Dundee, and drive four London buses along it.

 

Glad to see she is ours at last

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11173266

 

There was another clip on a BBC news just before the weekend but I can't find it separately on i-Player, and I only caught the tail end of it. In this a junior rate was showing his bunk space. I gather each bod has his own bunk nowadays? Getting soft are they? and he had a locker for 'toiletries' which I am sure are a considerable novelty in the submarine world, leading-edge stuff.

 

Don't believe everything you see on TV even if it is in colour.The rating said he had a locker for "toiletries" but didn't say what was actually in there.Why waste space on such friperies,stow them in the "not required on voyage storage".