V-boat control room tour

Hi Guys,

My first post

The BBC have got a panoramic view of a V-boat control room

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/07/trident_360/html/trident_360.stm

Any submariners fancy giving an explaination of what everything is as one goes round?

Thanks

NB

 

Hi Nick........

and welcome to Rum Ration (RR)

I would explain what everthing is but I can't see the thing as I don't have a flach player on my PC :sad:

 

Anchor Faced Jack never went into the Control Room apart from his Part 3.

:lol:

 

It doesn't look like this one of Trafalgar:http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/change/oneColTour/contentType/ConIpixGallery/contentId/5/viewIndex/1

 

That's because it's a V boat control room, not a T boat one.

 

The comment was more to do with how modern the v boat looks compared the t!!

 

Hi Nick, welcome to RR. Let me tell you what is going on.

The Guy in the white shirt is known as "ze kapitan" He is watching, Pinta, Josie, rivets, bergs and Nutty bags on the little tele screens in front of him, the three guys in blue are "the Crushers" they are watching Bootie and Blobby on the little red screen trying to find norks, the one in the middle is also drawing a picture of Norks. The Guy sprouting from the top of "Ze Kapitans" head is Andym rushing from the aft torpedo room to the sickbay in search of some swarfega for rivets ovvies rash.

(sorry all submariners, I couldn't resist) :lol:

 

It looks all vey swish to me and nothing like a boats control room, but hell the S boats were all shiny and new when I left the mob.

 

They were built for a different purpose and in a different era. V boats haven’t got traditional search periscopes, unlike previous classes. Because of this (and other reasons I guess) the control room on a V boat is on two deck, not one deck. I’ve not seen the 360 video because like Anchor Faced Jack, my pc won’t let me, so I don’t know how much you can see.

 

This was obviously taken alongside the wall as there is nobody on the planes and there is no wrecker on the sytems console, or for that matter any dabbers sitting at SMCS asleep.
There are no periscopes because we now use a video camera attached to the periscope which is in the PVA on 1 deck.

 

Did I need to know all that for my part 3 ????????????????

 

Maxi here is a link to Spartan when she went to Rio.
http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%20Spartan/HMS%20Spartan.htm

 

Yes. I do wonder, sometimes, how you ever passed your part 3. :wink:

 

by buying beers in the mess :lol:

 

Now some of those bits looked sort of familiar although the 2nd Coxn and Casing Officer need a bit af a talking to judging by some of the outside shots.

 

Again my puter wouldnt let me in but from the pictures on the BBC website, they have had a good tidy up. Good to see that there were no tag outs on the hydraulic plant - first time in a while! And that all the GIVs were working as well - again a novelty in harbour. Brings back fond memories. I bet the Kit Kat is still on top of the vent trunking above the SCOOW position! Also good to see a certain LWEM assuming the normal position, and that a certain LCh still hasnt lost any weight!

Anyone else know any of these usual suspects?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_on_board_hms_vigilant_/html/1.stm

 

Would tell you what everything is but i get a nose bleed if i go that fwd when onboard :lol:

 

Ah, Bin bags, bless them. :lol:

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Its ok we still leave the ball of string by the tunnel doors so you can find your way fwd again :wink:

 

Only if I can find the handles in the first place, right? :lol: