HMS Spartan spec ops boat?

TLAM Strike · 12-21-05, 03:18 PM

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 · 12-21-05, 04:29 PM

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 · 12-21-05, 04:51 PM

This link way posted on here a while back.

http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%2...%20Spartan.htm

TLAM Strike · 12-21-05, 05:10 PM

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?

lesrae · 12-22-05, 03:30 AM

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 · 12-22-05, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

It's like the float in a toilet basin

Man there's one big loo down there

lesrae · 12-22-05, 03:41 AM

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

Ramius · 12-22-05, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by lesrae

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

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

lesrae · 12-22-05, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 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?

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 · 12-22-05, 03:13 PM

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

XabbaRus · 12-22-05, 03:20 PM

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 · 12-22-05, 03:22 PM

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

Kapitan · 12-22-05, 05:08 PM

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

TLAM Strike · 01-17-06, 01:40 AM

This just posted:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...16/ixhome.html

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

Konovalov · 01-17-06, 01:11 PM

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

12-21-05, 03:18 PM	#1
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	HMS Spartan spec ops boat? 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: __________________

12-21-05, 04:29 PM	#2
Bort Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Studying in Atlanta Posts: 919 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	Exactly what I was thinking, TLAM. I didn't even know the Brits had DDS's. Maybe it was loaned/ donated by the USN? __________________ GT Aerospace

12-21-05, 04:51 PM	#3
Ramius Commander Join Date: May 2001 Location: At sea (again) Posts: 457 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	This link way posted on here a while back. http://www.alide.com.br/Artigo/HMS%2...%20Spartan.htm __________________ There is a forgotten, nay even forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England

12-21-05, 05:10 PM	#4
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	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? __________________

12-22-05, 03:20 PM	#11
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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? __________________

12-22-05, 03:30 AM	#5
lesrae Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, UK. Posts: 932 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	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.

12-22-05, 03:41 AM	#7
lesrae Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, UK. Posts: 932 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Yeah, well the Montreal Protocol stopped them pumping out toxic waste at sea, so the san tank got bigger.....

12-22-05, 03:13 PM	#10
micky1up Captain Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: helensburgh Posts: 525 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	you are so right tlam that is the main access hatch i serve on hms sceptre currently

12-22-05, 03:22 PM	#12
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This is taken inside the thing i believe. Sure looks like a staging area of some sort... __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

12-22-05, 05:08 PM	#13
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01-17-06, 01:40 AM	#14
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	This just posted: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...16/ixhome.html "[HMS Spartan is] fitted with a dry dock hangar from which mini-subs are launched underwater" __________________

01-17-06, 01:11 PM	#15
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