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bookworm_020
09-15-10, 07:35 AM
Well as the Australian Navy, State and Federal governments have just found out, a lot harder than it looks!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/7950343/more-money-sinks-with-hmas-adelaide/

The way it's going, the ship will sink at it's moorings waiting to be ready!
Schroeder
09-15-10, 07:40 AM
Actually I think it's okay to strip a ship of poisonous stuff before sinking it....:hmm2:
Oberon
09-15-10, 08:09 AM
Sink it?

Nonsense.

We'll have it...rate things are going, any cheap boat we can get our hands on will do! :yep:
papa_smurf
09-15-10, 08:11 AM
Sink it?

Nonsense.

We'll have it...rate things are going, any cheap boat we can get our hands on will do! :yep:

I'm sure we can convert it into an aircraft carrier:har:
JSLTIGER
09-15-10, 08:15 AM
In response to the question of the thread topic...easy, just make sure the ship is named Titanic, built to the original Olympic-class specs, find an iceberg and run the bow alongside the thing at about 15-16 knots. That ought to do it.
Herr-Berbunch
09-15-10, 08:22 AM
Removed of exfoliated red lead paint? Exfoliated? So it's not a hairy vessel then? :har:
Jimbuna
09-15-10, 10:17 AM
I'm sure we can convert it into an aircraft carrier:har:

LOL :DL
TLAM Strike
09-15-10, 03:52 PM
Lets see a FFG-7 equipped with SM-2 and ESSM... damn could be buy her back? Our FFG-7s only got a 76mm gun and torpedoes (soon to lose the 76mm gun)... :damn:
The Third Man
09-15-10, 04:00 PM
If the ship is filled with rail road ties it won't sink. But if filled with water of the same weight or open space it is going to the bottom.
Takeda Shingen
09-15-10, 04:16 PM
They could have done it like that SinkEx we all saw back a few years ago. I think they used that for the Sub Command intro movie as well.
SteamWake
09-15-10, 09:35 PM
LOL I thought this was a misplaced SH5 thread :haha:
bookworm_020
09-16-10, 06:06 AM
They could have done it like that SinkEx we all saw back a few years ago. I think they used that for the Sub Command intro movie as well.

The old HMAS Torrens. The irony is that HMAS Adelaide's sister ship, HMAS Melboure was going to be called Torrens at one stage.
They offer retired ships to the community to sink them as dive wrecks. It also makes old sailors happy that there ship isn't cut up into razor blades.

If the ship is filled with rail road ties it won't sink. But if filled with water of the same weight or open space it is going to the bottom.

It would now, as diver access holes have been cut into the hull. Leave the rail road ties on shore, my train still needs them to run on....

Lets see a FFG-7 equipped with SM-2 and ESSM... damn could be buy her back? Our FFG-7s only got a 76mm gun and torpedoes (soon to lose the 76mm gun)... :damn:

Turning warships into floating targets? How would you feel if you were assigned to one them. "We have no main guns, no missiles. But we do have some torpedoes, a rifle and large amounts of surplus baked beans to keep hostile forces away."
Oberon
09-16-10, 07:21 AM
Turning warships into floating targets? How would you feel if you were assigned to one them. "We have no main guns, no missiles. But we do have some torpedoes, a rifle and large amounts of surplus baked beans to keep hostile forces away."

Royal Navy 2011
TLAM Strike
09-16-10, 08:39 AM
Turning warships into floating targets? How would you feel if you were assigned to one them. "We have no main guns, no missiles. But we do have some torpedoes, a rifle and large amounts of surplus baked beans to keep hostile forces away."

I just be glad I wasn't assigned to a Cyclone class patrol boat... (http://defensetech.org/2010/09/15/navy-grounds-cyclone-class-coastal-patrol-boats/)
Herr-Berbunch
09-16-10, 10:08 AM
Our FFG-7s only got a 76mm gun and torpedoes (soon to lose the 76mm gun)... :damn:

Is that Bernard's idea, to make it more streamlined for a quicker dive-time? :har:
bookworm_020
09-16-10, 06:44 PM
I just be glad I wasn't assigned to a Cyclone class patrol boat... (http://defensetech.org/2010/09/15/navy-grounds-cyclone-class-coastal-patrol-boats/)

Couldn't access the link. Here is a replacement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_class_patrol_ship
TLAM Strike
09-16-10, 06:48 PM
Couldn't access the link. Here is a replacement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_class_patrol_ship

Actually it was a link to a defensetech.org article on the problems the Cyclones have been having, the whole fleet has been "grounded" due to frame bucking and hull damage. Its still on the front page of defensetech... :salute: