HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor collide off the docks of Bahrain, 18.01.24.
British defence secretary Grant Shapps recently boasted about how the UK makes up for catastrophically low military recruitment numbers with “a can-do attitude”… pic.twitter.com/5rtdMbewJo
— Kit Klarenberg (@KitKlarenberg) January 19, 2024
What are the odds the captain is a diversity promotion? Probably a woman driver. They never know how to back in.
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DEI ship commander?
No, just fully vaxxed and boosted.
And that was in perfectly calm seas. They would never make it at the Anchorage port, where the tides are wicked.
The Houthis and Tutsis using superior sand technology hacked the ships control mechanisms and remote controlled the crash from a cave in Palestine.
In the navy,
You can do just what you please,
In the navy, you can catch a strange disease!
In the navy,
You can crash into your friends,
In the navy,
You can fill up your depends,
I just pissed myself at that one
The engine room Karen was arguing with the ship captain over whether the ship was going in reverse or not.
Kinda like the FAA Karen arguing with that pilot.
The helmsperson was not on speaking terms with the engine room.
In a Puerto Rican/New yawk accent to the captain:
“You tell her full speed ahead, I ain’t gonna talk to dat bitch”
Classic!
You joke, but this is one of the causes of a collision that occurred between a US Navy ship and a merchant vessel near the Philippines.
They make warships out of fiberglass?
Interesting development.
Ramming speed.
It’s a minesweeper.
The collision resulted in a significant breach in the glass-reinforced plastic hull of HMS Bangor, raising concerns about the vulnerability of Royal Navy minesweepers.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/toi-original/uks-two-royal-navy-warships-collide-off-coast-of-bahrain/videoshow/107022991.cms
When they meet up against the Houthi rebels.
Having been on a minesweeper, years ago, I can tell you that they can’t make them from metal. The one I was on was a converted Vietnam-era ship, with a wooden hull (wooden ships, iron men!).
It’s because of magnetic mines, of which most are. Even in a wooden ship, we still had to get our magnetic sonar signature resonanced in Long Beach because of the countermeasure devices we had to carry onboard, including the long swingarm crane amidship with which we moved them all.
Anyway, it seems they have advanced materials they weave now to make these things instead of good, solid wood. This incident wouldn’t have been as bad if both ships had been wooden.
Our CO let a fresh-out-of-the-academy Lt. JG, who had never docked a boat before, take us in when we got home; the genius ended up taking out about two pier chocks and gouging the port side of the ship (and guess who had to help sand and then paint the hull?). Yeah, it was that kind of ship. Capable commanders.
Lastly, it doesn’t matter what they make minesweepers out of these days, when you’re parked in the Persian Gulf on GQ for 72 hours at a time you’ll still lose just as much stomach lining.
I saw it and thought “they use that shitty Kevlar plating for ship hulls? wow.” Small arms isn’t usually your biggest ship threat.
As I understand, it was a minesweeper, which a non-metallic hull would be suitable for.
GrandUncle commanded one made of wood.
I wonder if the Norwegians learned any thing after the all gurl crew of the Helge Ingstad sank their ship.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.navylookout.com/learning-the-lessons-the-loss-the-norwegian-frigate-helge-ingstad/&ved=2ahUKEwiUiLrj1O6DAxV_kWoFHXyaDvMQFnoECC8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1p1i2fYr3DtVBeHA8KbiB0
The fact that the name of the ship’s commander is not available tells you who was at the helm without telling you.
The Norwegian Navy (Sjøforsvaret) was short of qualified navigation officers and the officer of the watch (OOW) in charge of navigating the ship was young and relatively inexperienced.
And NATO wants to war with Russia.
Fucking idiots.
I’ve worked with some very capable women, including a number who were excellent managers. But when you get more than 3 or 4 women in the same group, all hell breaks lose. My wife and daughter have even told me that they HATE working where it is mostly females because of all the cattiness.
Same here.
She also told me about the “synching up” thing, which was just groady to hear.
Just wait until you see it two weeks later.
The ship commander was below decks with his Thai ladyboy, Terrence “The Jamaican” Blackmon was helming the ship, and trying to “parallel park” the craft when he suddenly remembered: “Oh shit mon, dis ain’t my car, it’s a boat!”
: “Oh shit mon, dis ain’t my car, it’s a boat!”
And then ran away screaming and jumped off the ship…into the dock!
The female captain deliberately crashed into the other ship because the captain of the other vessel? is her ex.
or was jealous of the other captain’s shoes….
Wait to your see her parallel park.
Their solution: put back up beepers on their warships.
Problem solved!
Collision avoidance cameras and tech.
Pier “curb sensors”
Bobby celebrating his new job as pilot for United Airlines.
That was retarded.
diversity hires….
Joe Dirt “Shit’ll Buff Out”
Rum, buggery and the lash worked so well for centuries. WHat happened?
Ran outa rum and the eye lashes are fake now.
“Why is the rum always gone?!”
“Oh”
Grog
I mentioned this before, but I work for a company that actually has a department under HR for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”. There are people paid to promote DEI. Not only do they search out non-white people to work for the company, but they host monthly meetings focused around different cultures and lifestyles. Blatant racism and discrimination exists in companies like that. They don’t even hide it anymore.
If you are asking how I can work for such a company. Well the good thing about DEI is that my skillset is worth more than every Indian, woman, tranny, black, or whatever non-white with a heart beat they can hire. I get paid a boat load to keep making the company look good while they keep trying to hire people that do not have the proper skills. Ironically I wanted to hire a black guy who knew his shit. He turned down their offer because they didn’t want to pay him enough. So much for DEI working out.
never interrupt a company thats determined to destroy itself.
As I see it, you are doing the same thing these asswipes are doing to the west… carry on
I am not part of their DEI nonsense. They leave me alone because THEY need me for my skillset. I have already drew a line on things. If they ever pushed that shit on me I walk. I don’t have to tell management that. I think internally they know where I stand. I prepared for the coming financial crisis years ago. The feeling that you can tell a company to fuck off at anytime is a good one to have.
Not say’n you are a part of the DEI, carry on making them ‘look’ good and they’ll eventually destroy themselves, and then wonder what happened. Its a great thing that you’ve held to your principles. Thats a solid.
As for me, I’ve never had a job that was so important to me that I was fearful of losing. To me, I can’t think of a job I wouldn’t walk away from if need be. Fortunately I had great teachers when I was young, and learned this early.
~That was a good example of Tales From the Front, Winner.
Curious what example, as I haven’t read Tales From the Front.
Is it solid principles or walking away from a job?
Meanwhile, back in the USA….
Now, back to a poast a few days ago:
“DeadMan” Austin, the DeadSecDef.
There has, as on now, ZERO real proof of life.
CONgress has subpoenaed to testify before a special congressional committee on February 14 for his being AWOL. In turn, he’s supposed to be answering in writing on February 7th, as “he’s too sick” to show up in person.
That’s the equivalent of the Krain putting a big Red Circle “X” on their “Political Assassination Targets” website. The one where they’ve publiocally stated that they were going to be going after and encouraged others to be going after and killing “Enemies of the Krain” and whatnot…
Russia’s website was similar, but didn’t call for the extermination of folks… just a “Who’s-Who” of the enemies of Russia.
And now Austin’s profile has been removed.
As said by that blaq a few years back: “Yo, that nigga dead yo!”
Feel good story of the day if true
It looks like those war ships are made out of fiberglass. What happened to steel? Either way, I find this great. Sink these fucking things before they can go reinforce the asshole Ukranians. Good thing turkey wouldnt let them through.
Some of those mines have a magnetic switch to make them go boom. The mine explodes when in close proximity to ferrous metals like a steel hull. If a minesweeper with a steel hull bumps into a magnetic mine or is even close to the mine, maybe the mine blows a big hole in the hull; but with a fiberglass hull, maybe no big boom.
I’m ex Royal Navy back when it was a real Navy. And I’m rootin’ for the Hooties. What a world we live in.
Minesweepers were tradionally made from wood, sailor.
https://ussguidemso447.com/minesweeping-boats-msb
You know how they separate the Woke from the Boys in the British Navy?
With a crowbar……
I googled the ship name to try and find the captain’s name and it led me to the ship crashing in 2021. I thought today’s article must have been recycled from 2021. Nope. The idiots in charge of this ship have had two major fuck-ups in the last three years. I bet Putin is really worried about the British navy.
The HMS Chiddingfold is a minesweeper destroyer.
british/usausa military today
Worse than a Costco parking lot in the Asian part of town.
My mom once backed into the USPS mail truck at her mailbox. The odds of hitting an object directly behind you, in front of your own house, when that object is only there for <2 min/day/6 days a week, and you only leave the house 5x per week, are a lot higher than you would guess.
Fig Newtons Third Principle: Objects in proximity tend to collide when dad died a long time agon and nobody is keeping mom strapped to reality.
I get the sense we are living in a time when the cul-de-sac is jammed full of USPS buggies and legions of old women are at the helm of minivans they can no longer control and their craving for chocolate cake from Safeway while buzzed out of their gourds on SSRIs and statins will have them gunning out of the driveway any second now.
Brace for it.
Man, you can really paint a picture!
Try San Gabriel Valley in CA.
Wrap your car in Nerf foam first.
They promoted sight challenged OOWs.
They must allow bone-smoking in the pilot house like the US does. Hmmm.
What the heck is a “Chiddingfold” anyway? It sounds oddly pornographic.
It’s a very deep crevice on a land whale. Don’t go there without a powerful flashlight, helmet, rope, carabiners, pitons and hammer and some gloves. No sunscreen needed gwarranteed.
You have been warned.
Chiddingfold~
Noun
The folds and flaps of flab on an obese person are chiddingfolds.
I did not need to know that!
Every Navy that has put women on ships has had multiple problems with officer/enlisted fraternization and pregnancy (do I need to say “female pregnancy”?)