HMS Spartan spec ops boat?

[TLAM Strike]

http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2005/0512/0512_images/0005122101ax.jpg
I saw this image on navynews.co.uk and was wondering if that was a DDS aft of her sail. If so are all UK SSNs capable of carring them?

I just never saw a RN boat with a DDS... :hmm:

[Bort]

Exactly what I was thinking, TLAM. I didn't even know the Brits had DDS's. Maybe it was loaned/ donated by the USN?

[Ramius]

This link way posted on here a while back.

http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%20Spartan/HMS%20Spartan.htm

[TLAM Strike]

Hmmm good pics of it but it dosn't say what it is. Its hooked to the escape trunk by the look of it, is it a lockout chamber for divers?

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/39/spartan0227zs.jpg

[lesrae]

The use of that chamber is still classified by the MoD, it's permenantly attached, free flooding and it's not a garage for a smaller submersible.

[snowsub]

The use of that chamber is still classified by the MoD, it's permenantly attached, free flooding and it's not a garage for a smaller submersible.

It's like the float in a toilet basin

Man there's one big loo down there :o

[lesrae]

Yeah, well the Montreal Protocol stopped them pumping out toxic waste at sea, so the san tank got bigger.....

[Ramius]

Yeah, well the Montreal Protocol stopped them pumping out toxic waste at sea, so the san tank got bigger.....

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[lesrae]

Hmmm good pics of it but it dosn't say what it is. Its hooked to the escape trunk by the look of it, is it a lockout chamber for divers?

For info, on an S boat that's the main access hatch, the escape hatch is aft, just at the start of the sloping part of the hull.

[micky1up]

you are so right tlam that is the main access hatch i serve on hms sceptre currently

[XabbaRus]

OK so it is over the main access hatch. So is it an SBS diver lockout?

And do the regular crew go through a forward access hatch then?

[August]

This is taken inside the thing i believe. Sure looks like a staging area of some sort...

http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%20Spartan/imagem/Spartan-004.jpg

[Kapitan]

she looks a little worse for wear but id say its from marine eliete commando's failing that the SBS possibly

[TLAM Strike]

This just posted:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/16/nsbs16.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/16/ixhome.html

"[HMS Spartan is] fitted with a dry dock hangar from which mini-subs are launched underwater"

[Konovalov]

I was wondering if that was the case. I'm sure this kind of thread popped up in the Sub Command forums once. :up:

[Godalmighty83]

i think those pics were just before her last refit in my view the refit gaps are too long spread out causing panels to break up like seen in the pics.

[lesrae]

i think those pics were just before her last refit in my view the refit gaps are too long spread out causing panels to break up like seen in the pics.

I guess you mean the anechoic tiles, to my knowledge they come off all the time on all subs. The RN replace the missing ones at every maintenance opportunity, ie every couple of months, not just at refit. Nobody's yet come up with a good enough way of fixing them on , remember what a harsh environment they have to operate in.

I read somewhere in the SHIII forum that the Kriegsmarine had the same problem in WWII - some things never change!

[lesrae]

And I assume the comment at the bottom left of this stateboard:

http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%20Spartan/imagem/Spartan-010.jpg

Should read 'XO TRIMMING RULES' - if it's his rimming rules then I don't want to know about them :huh:

[XabbaRus]

LOL RN humour...

I thought that was the role of the XO...until he graduates to Commander...

[TLAM Strike]

How come everything in England has to do with people’s asses? :hmm:

[XabbaRus]

Mainly cos most of the hi up Navy types went to boarding school.

Also cos I think Britain tries to shaft anyone given the opportunity.