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USS Hampton Surfaces on “Top of the World”
Navy NewsStand ^
| 4/20/2004 9:28:00 AM
| Chief Journalist (SW/AW) Mark O. Piggott, Commander, Naval Submarine Forces, Public Affairs
Posted on 04/20/2004 11:19:37 AM PDT by BykrBayb
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posted on
04/20/2004 11:19:39 AM PDT
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BykrBayb
To: BykrBayb
'HMS Tireless'. Did previous British subs have tires?
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posted on
04/20/2004 11:42:31 AM PDT
by
Lee Heggy
(When truth and logic fail high explosives are applicable.)
To: Lee Heggy
Yes, the most famous one was HMS Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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posted on
04/20/2004 11:45:17 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 a.m. EDT, until she's safe.)
To: Lee Heggy
Tires? Dunno - but they now use that special aluminIum alloy - supposedly the extra "i" makes the hull stronger! ;-)
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posted on
04/20/2004 11:54:56 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Lee Heggy
'HMS Tireless'. Did previous British subs have tires?
Small problem, over here we spell properly, and tire is a verb. Tyres are the rubber things one puts on one's car wheels.
The Royal Navy tends to give the ships of each class names beginning with the same letter (though not universally, we are British, and therefore complete uniformity does not go down well); and usually a suitably 'uplifting' name, so some Naval chap had to think up an array of suitable names beginning with 'T' and thought of Tireless.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:14:27 PM PDT
by
tjwmason
(A voice from Merry England.)
To: BykrBayb
Yes, the most famous one was HMS Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang merely floated on water and flew, it was not a submarine.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:15:41 PM PDT
by
tjwmason
(A voice from Merry England.)
To: tjwmason
If submarines are "Ts", can I assume there's a Trafalgar?
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:16:42 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
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To: tjwmason
It was so a submarine. The problem they had with it was the air in the tires prevented it from submerging. That's why they developed the HMS Tireless. ; )
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:19:45 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 a.m. EDT, until she's safe.)
To: Lee Heggy
The Brits spell it, tyres. :)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:20:03 PM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: BykrBayb
Photos must have been taken. Were they released?
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:23:44 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: tjwmason
I see that you have already described tyres, tires, etc.
Good job!
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:25:30 PM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: 1Old Pro
I checked the Navy NewsStand for photos, but they didn't have any from this event.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:27:00 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 a.m. EDT, until she's safe.)
To: BykrBayb
Glad to see the US Navy displaying some under the ice capability once again.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:28:05 PM PDT
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Fair winds and following seas to them all.)
To: FreedomPoster
"If submarines are "Ts", can I assume there's a Trafalgar?"
You assume CORRECTLY!
Not only Trafalgar (the class ship) but also:
Turbulent
Tireless
Torbay
Trenchant
Talent
Triumph
See this cool website:
http://www.royal-navy.mod.ok/static/pages/2299.html Regards,
Levante
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:30:45 PM PDT
by
Levante
To: BykrBayb
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, (D) TX: "When are we going to send a submarine to the bottom of the world? Whey don't we meet a Haitian
submarine there? How come we never do things with the Zimbabwean navy?"
To: Levante
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:34:35 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
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To: Lee Heggy
The UK sold a couple of used subs to Canada two or three years ago. Buyer's remorse. The big selling feature were the leaks that created a hockey rink.
I guess the Canadians thought they could try to compete with Russia's Kursk, which had a sauna and swimming pool.
Anyway, the leaks were more than they bargained for, and all the hockey sticks were put to use as levers on valves, or
otherwise employed in stopping leaks.
To: tjwmason
"Small problem, over here we spell properly, and tire is a verb"
I see...over here we just say things any old way...kind of like the Noddys do in Birmingham. 'Tired' as a verb comes out as 'tarred' or 'tuckered'. Didn't know about that alphabet rule with ship names. Thanks for the info!
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:54:13 PM PDT
by
Lee Heggy
(When truth and logic fail high explosives are applicable.)
To: Calvin Locke
Queen Sheila continued: "And the USS Hampton? That's an anglo name! Why come there ain't no USS Port au Prince and no USS Mogadishu?"
To: tjwmason
I always did have a fondness for British ship names. Most are very descriptive and some did well to relay a sense of power and pride (Dreadnaught, Dauntless, etc).
Though being American, the link to cites, leaders, states, etc. weighs heavily in my liking of US naming conventions.
And being in the US Army Armored Corps means we also get to name our tanks, but use the naming conventions similar to the British. I was in a Delta Company as an LT. Thus my tanks all had names starting with "D". It does make for interesting naming.
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:58:56 PM PDT
by
M1Tanker
(Modern "progressive" liberalism is just NAZIism without the "twisted cross")
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