Times: "Royal Navy Ship Torpedoed Whales In Falklands"

[scouse]

Rogue torpedo on the range

 

[Sharkey]

View attachment 6974 Rogue torpedo on the range

This was another dit, thing stuck to hard arise shot out the water, falls back in shoots out again and so on, goes across the loch like a kangaroo

 

[Ninja_Stoker]

...or the aquatic mammalian equivalent of the bouncy marsupial, a dolphin?

 

[soleil]

The Daily Mail has more:

British warship HMS Brilliant torpedoed WHALES during Falklands War | Mail Online

 

[Ninja_Stoker]

The Daily Mail has more:

British warship HMS Brilliant torpedoed WHALES during Falklands War | Mail Online

Good old Daily Mail. There's a handy picture of a whale in the article, just in case any TAS Apes get confused again.

 

[Grim_Squeaker85]

PETA will be outraged. There may well be revenge attacks against the Navy.

Hippy treehuggers and animal fondlers are terrifying when outraged.


Sent via Heliograph from the Jebel Birkenhead

 

[Topstop]

From the Wail.

Radar on the Royal Navy ship was unable to distinguish between attacking 'Wolf Packs' of subs and a pod of whales.

Read more: British warship HMS Brilliant torpedoed WHALES during Falklands War | Mail Online
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Well it would`nt would it?

 

[Waspie]

Euryalus long ago had a Chief Air Tiffie who was much into ornithology. He told us how, on a trip to the South Atlantic, he had tried to catch an albatross with a heaving line so as to ring it. Albatross was duly snagged but was stronger than our man and flew away into the wild blue yonder, heaving line and all.

Do tell more - I was a WAFU on t'Euryalus. Sound the sort of thing our Mick Cook, (Chief tiffyWoo). He also absailed starkers but thats another tale!!

 

[Waspie]

Talk of the good ship Euryalus reminded me of a Firing with the squadron. She fired her Ikara during a high seas firing off Gib.

Apollo went to emergency stations.

The wasp gave chase to the cries of; NO Telemetry - No cut down!!!

Wasp spots members of Apollo's ships company jumping off stern!

Ikara seen heading, mast height towards Apollo!!

Wasp loses sight of Ikara.

Two days later - Euryalus Wasp flies WEO off ship!!!!!!!!! Naughty man flicked a switch so that the weapon would definitely leave the launcher!!!!!

 

[Seaweed]

Before your time Waspie! (and before the Ikara refit). 2nd commission 1966-8.

 

[Waspie]

Before your time Waspie! (and before the Ikara refit). 2nd commission 1966-8.

Cheers, I was wondering if it was something Cooky would do - he was a wee bit off centre!!!!

 

[jaggers]

Were they British or Argentine whales?

 

[Grim_Squeaker85]

Were they British or Argentine whales?

Or even far wandering Welsh Whales. Whales from Wales.


Sent via Heliograph from the Jebel Birkenhead

 

[theatreelf]

Dear Greenpeace
I'm sorry but I was only a killick stoker on Brilliant, and there was a sub shooting at us,

love Rog

 

[Ninja_Stoker]

Dear Greenpeace
I'm sorry but I was only a killick stoker on Brilliant, and there was a sub shooting at us,

love Rog

When were you torpedoed, Rog? Don't recall that one, but then again, looking on the Brilliant website I was surprised to see on 16/04/1982, the transfer of nuclear depth charges listed & didn't realise my ship (Argonaut) was carrying a training WE 177: Untitled Document (Diary, 10 to 14 April 1982) .

Anyone know what a "surveillance" NBD was?

 

[jrwlynch]

Anyone know what a "surveillance" NBD was?

Don't know, but can offer a guess. It might have been instrumented up to measure conditions experienced (temperature, shock, vibration...?) while embarked, to feed back for either maintaining existing stock or designing new ones.

 

[theatreelf]

When were you torpedoed, Rog? Don't recall that one, but then again, looking on the Brilliant website I was surprised to see on 16/04/1982, the transfer of nuclear depth charges listed & didn't realise my ship (Argonaut) was carrying a training WE 177:
1st May couple of tinfish released from San Luis interesting read here http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA279554&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

 

[Bandy_E]

Yet another dit from Faslane, boat in loch whatever doing torpedo trials, fires one, it goes mad shoots off up side of loch and takes out a cow

Loch "whatever" must have been Loch Long.
Sound trials took place in the Sound of Sleat...neat!

 

[Ninja_Stoker]

That makes for interesting reading.

Going back to the list of warships routinely carrying nuclear weapons, it seems quite odd nowadays to think how the Cold War affected the way we went about our business. Who would have thought that warships going into a potential conflict of unknown intensity, would actually destore ammunition?

 

[pg55555]

When were you torpedoed, Rog? Don't recall that one, but then again, looking on the Brilliant website I was surprised to see on 16/04/1982, the transfer of nuclear depth charges listed & didn't realise my ship (Argonaut) was carrying a training WE 177:


1st May couple of tinfish released from San Luis interesting read here http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA279554&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

The Argentinian authorities and, indeed, the San Luis own Captain have changed their "official" stories so often it was impossible for the British official historian to assess which, if any, was any were near the truth.

All one can say is that there are a huge variety of stories any one of which you are free to believe, or not, as you choose.

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