Posted on 02/11/2024 12:17:54 PM PST by dynachrome
Crowds of hundreds gathering to watch the grand departure of £3billion warship HMS Prince of Wales, ahead of the biggest NATO exercise since the Cold War, have been left bitterly disappointed after it failed to make it out of the harbour.
The 65,000-tonne Royal Navy aircraft carrier was primed and ready today to make the journey from Portsmouth Naval Base to Norway to take part in Exercise Steadfast Defender which is set to involve more than 40 ships.
This comes exactly a week on from the failed departure of the vessel's sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth last weekend when an 'issue' was found with its starboard propellor coupling at the last minute.
Since then, the race has been on to replace Big Lizzie with the HMS Prince of Wales and before the big day scaffolding was removed from the aircraft carrier's flight deck.
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“...after it failed to make it out of the harbour.
Take that Putin (and Iran)!!!!
NATO don’t need to do no maintenance on our ships because WE ARE NATO and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!
You might not believe this but I was watching part of a Rocky and Bullwinkle Show earlier today. Stokey the Bear, funniest thing you’ll see today.
https://youtu.be/RKgX7A5rK20?si=sO31rcQKBeoqiUWY
LOL
Diamond or Sheffield?
....”Lucas - the Prince of Darkness”
LOL, yes it does!
Sounds like a recurrent problem for this ship.
Didn’t the French have a propeller fall off their carrier a few years ago? And have to put on used ones from another ship?
It has to be coupled to the shaft somehow.
P Di didn’t couple well?
I’d doubt it.
Brits should learn from the Russians that carriers should never be outside hailing distance from an ocean-going tug.
We’ve got a few extra flat tops...time to bring back Lend-Lease?
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The US has difficulty in manufacturing common artillery shells, you confuse America’s huge manufacturing base of WW2 to America today.
“A thing of magnificent beauty”
I assume magnificent sarc, otherwise, are you crosseyed ?
HMS Elizabeth and HMS Prince o’ Whales almost as ugly as USsS (UnitedStatesStupidShip) littoral class.
A moose bit my sister there.
Rum and the lash are no longer allowed. Maybe that is the issue. Who knew that rum and the lash were so important?
Møøse bites can be nastii
She went with any Sloan Ranger she could ride and apparently muslims too. Dodi the party boy of Harrod’s owner. With a drunken chauffeur so it is said. But, she “cared” so for the downtrodden, oh and Elton John too.
What farce is England from what it once was. Ever since it lost the American Colonies.
Not a county - it’s part of the county of Hampshire. You can’t leave Portsmouth by sea without passing the IoW.
She has now sailed. All this hot air and 70+ plus posts deriding a bare 24-hour delay on a mission for which a major warship was given barely a week’s notice. I call that pretty impressive.
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