How to Simulate Navy Life

[DuncaninFrance]

She looks as though she will be very fast Robert.

[DuncaninFrance]

(see Duncan, we go way back )

[Niner]

The ship I posted a photo of is one in a series. One brief discription of one of her sister ships is:

The 127 metre Austal trimaran seaframe is the platform for the LCS’s mission and weapon systems. This seaframe provides superior seakeeping and aviation as a result of its long, slender central hull and smaller side hulls (“amahs”). The trimaran hullform provides a huge internal mission deck with a large payload carrying capacity and superior seakeeping capability.


Located above the mission bay is the largest flight deck on a surface combatant capable of conducting dual H-60 helicopter operations and accommodating the US Navy’s largest helicopter, an H-53, a feature not available on similar size naval warships. The vertical location of the flight deck on the trimaran hull form provides the highest flight deck elevation on a combatant ship other than a major amphibious vessel or aircraft carrier.

http://www.austal.com/index.cfm?objecti ... 132EFD902C

[Aughnanure]

I was in sumarines . . . in and on the docks at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, as a Marine Dimensional Inspector (MDI for short). Never managed to go submerged and, if the truth be told, never really wanted to.

[Karl/Pa.]

I was in sumarines . . . in and on the docks at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, as a Marine Dimensional Inspector (MDI for short). Never managed to go submerged and, if the truth be told, never really wanted to.

Don't blame you. Its unnatural. 100 men go down and 50 couples come up.