HMS QE2

Scotsblood said:
Logistics Officer. She’s off again tomorrow to join a ship to do ‘something somewhere warm’. We’ve just about got used to not really knowing much till we are told! You can’t help but worry as a parent but.....
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Good for her. It’s a great life. Our daughter is serving too and will deploy to a carrier next year. She’s been in 14 years now so we don’t worry as much. It still slightly amazes us to be honest 😂
 
chaser said:
Just a question from someone who lives as far from the sea as you can get in England what actually is the difference between a ship and a boat?
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Sailing in the Baltic years ago, I was informed by the Scandinavians that a boat has no deck and is open, a ship has a deck. All yachts were called ships and I was often taken aback when asked about my ship!
So to that way of thinking ships had lifeboats but now have lifeships (still called lifeboats though)

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chaser said:
Wow this thread has caused some bother out of a simple thing like a ship on the sea. :unsure:
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Aye but we're all in the Same boat Charlie.

Be nice if everyone agreed but unfortunately that ship has sailed 🤣

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Scotsblood said:
Logistics Officer. She’s off again tomorrow to join a ship to do ‘something somewhere warm’. We’ve just about got used to not really knowing much till we are told! You can’t help but worry as a parent but.....
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Our son is now in the Army Reserve. He still gets sent to where he is needed at very short notice. I just don't ask.

His total service is over 20 years, and he also has a full time day job. Luckily his present day job employer is very supportive, which hasn't been the case for previous employers.
 
Scotsblood said:
Logistics Officer. She’s off again tomorrow to join a ship to do ‘something somewhere warm’. We’ve just about got used to not really knowing much till we are told! You can’t help but worry as a parent but.....
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That is my son’s dream - logistics officer. I think we’ve persuaded him to finish uni first but he’s spending his summer at Dartmouth doing a summer program with the Navy.
 
At a rehearsal for an event to be opened by Her Majesty the person playing her part wore a hi-vis jacket with the logo HMTQ. The person taking Prince Phillip's part was HMDE.

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Mousy said:
Good for her. It’s a great life. Our daughter is serving too and will deploy to a carrier next year. She’s been in 14 years now so we don’t worry as much. It still slightly amazes us to be honest 😂
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She's now deployed three times in her first year as a fully trained logistics officer so can't be doing much wrong! It's a great life and she is loving it.
 
Grianan said:
That is my son’s dream - logistics officer. I think we’ve persuaded him to finish uni first but he’s spending his summer at Dartmouth doing a summer program with the Navy.
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Living and doing her pre-joining fitness in Lincolnshire our daughter found running the hills at BRNC a big shock! Any hill running he can do will help to prepare for 'camp sprint' but 'cardiac hill' is something else. Trying to walk up a month after having covid nearly did me in! BRNC is about as concentrated as any training can be but she now realises it was really great as well as hard.
 
Scotsblood said:
Living and doing her pre-joining fitness in Lincolnshire our daughter found running the hills at BRNC a big shock! Any hill running he can do will help to prepare for 'camp sprint' but 'cardiac hill' is something else. Trying to walk up a month after having covid nearly did me in! BRNC is about as concentrated as any training can be but she now realises it was really great as well as hard.
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That’s interesting … He did say this course which seems to be a 9 week condensed flavour of BRNC was ‘type 2 fun’ - it was tough now but that he’d enjoy it in retrospect.
 
Do the people that go to sea in 'Boats' still get called 'Fish heads',
'Brown jobs' get called 'Grunts', and the 'Blue jobs' get called 'Penguins'?
Of course these are only a few of the things we called our fellow service compatriots!!
Oh the things we put up with!!!

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jwells said:
Do the people that go to sea in 'Boats' still get called 'Fish heads',
'Brown jobs' get called 'Grunts', and the 'Blue jobs' get called 'Penguins'?
Of course these are only a few of the things we called our fellow service compatriots!!
Oh the things we put up with!!!
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General Service surface fleet are still Fish Heads, Submariners; Bubble Heads, Fleet Air Arm; WAFUs.
Then we have Crabfats, Pongoes and Bootnecks 😉
 
Jim said:
Does he have any carriers left? I don't think so.
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The Russian navy's sole aircraft carrier, the unfortunate Admiral Kuznetsov, was supposed to leave the port of Murmansk, in northern Russia, this spring for the first time in seven years. This according to a July 2023 report in Russian state media. Kuznetsov didn't leave.
 
Wildbill said:
The Russian navy's sole aircraft carrier, the unfortunate Admiral Kuznetsov, was supposed to leave the port of Murmansk, in northern Russia, this spring for the first time in seven years. This according to a July 2023 report in Russian state media. Kuznetsov didn't leave.
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Aha! Your cover is blown! I think you may be a Russian spy,or a double agent,you know a lot about their navy . Perhaps you are planning an exchange of prisoners on SognorMio in the North Sea ,that’s why you’ve been fettling the old girl?? Don’t forget to turn off your transponder. ;) :ROFLMAO::rofl::rofl:.
Sorry for thread drift folks,but it lightens the mornings “discussion”:rofl:
 
RowleyBirkinQC said:
Perhaps he can commission a shiny new spangly carrier from his Chinese buddy?
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If he does, I'm sure Zelenskyy will enjoy holing it below the water line.

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Jim said:
If he does, I'm sure Zelenskyy will enjoy holing it below the water line.
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Only a madman would send a carrier when they have land bases within easy reach................wait a minute!
 
chaser said:
Just a question from someone who lives as far from the sea as you can get in England what actually is the difference between a ship and a boat?
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You can put a boat on a ship but not vice versa. You can put a ship on a ship but usually you have to sink the ship first.
 

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