Another UK Sub runs aground

[SUBMAN1]

Isn't this #2 now in recent memory?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7422774.stm

-S

[mrbeast]

Sounds like she is showing her age.

HMS Superb was first launched in 1976

Roll on the Astutes!

[Linton]

It depends what your definition of recent memory is.The one that apeared in the press last week actually happened six years ago.It only re-appeared because a UK citizen asked to see the report and the MOD was obligated to publish it.
The latest would appear to be a repeat of the San Francisco incident.High speed into a seamount.Luckily it is believed that nobody was injured.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Linton

It depends what your definition of recent memory is.The one that apeared in the press last week actually happened six years ago.It only re-appeared because a UK citizen asked to see the report and the MOD was obligated to publish it.
The latest would appear to be a repeat of the San Francisco incident.High speed into a seamount.Luckily it is believed that nobody was injured.

Ahh! It was you who posted it too i think. Anyway, sorry that I didn't know it was 6 years ago! Good to hear it isn't a weekly occurrence.

-S

[STEED]

We really are............................

[Linton]

Super-B's age hasn't really got anything to do with it.You could do the same with Astute if your navigation plan wasn't properly prepared.

[Oberon]

The Navy is now trying to work out how to return the vessel to port. It is currently in international waters, but is unable to dive because of the damage to its sonar equipment.

I'm not in the ministry but...erm...don't submarines work on the surface too? :hmm:

Anyway, it's nothing major, well, the cost of repairing the sonar dome will probably be major but there was no breach of the inner hull and no crewmembers killed or hurt.I'm not quite sure how we seem to find these rocks...magnetism perhaps? But it's not as if it's a daily habit, and this kind of incident would probably have been covered up in the darker parts of the Cold War (Falklands conflict notwithstanding because I know an Oberon collided with a rock there and busted a forward tube) but because of all the hype about nuclear reactors, anything happening to anything with the word nuclear in it makes instant dread-news.