HMS QE2

[Tombola]

You can’t help but worry as a parent but.....

,,,,,,,,she's doing her bit for the country and probably following her dream...good Iuck to her.

 

[Mousy]

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.....

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

 

[Northernraider]

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?

A ship is like a motorhome
A boat is like a pvc

 

[Northernraider]

WISH I HAD NOT BOTHERED YOU PEDANTIC BUNCH OF CRETINS .GET YOUR PUNCTUATION RIGHT OR DONT POST .I DONT CARE IF IT QE2 QE8 ITS A BIG BOAT DEAL WITH IT .

Jings who stole your candy floss

 

[mackeellan]

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?

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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[eddie]

A ship is like a motorhome
A boat is like a pvc

We've always called ours ""the camper' whether 36' or our current tiddler at only 26'

 

[chaser]

Wow this thread has caused some bother out of a simple thing like a ship on the sea.

 

[Northernraider]

We've always called ours ""the camper' whether 36' or our current tiddler at only 26'

Yeah I usually call mine camper or just van. Very rarely say motorhome

 

[Pausim]

A ship is like a motorhome
A boat is like a pvc

They are both registered as motor caravans and neither of them float.

 

[Northernraider]

Wow this thread has caused some bother out of a simple thing like a ship on the sea.

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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[Northernraider]

They are both registered as motor caravans and neither of them float.

What? Even autotrails?

 

[sueandjohn]

Off on a tangent , hopefully to lighten the mood , I once saw a foreign reporter , announcing the arrival of our queen . As …. Here comes QE2

 

[Puddleduck]

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.....

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.

 

[Grianan]

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.....

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.

 

[Puddleduck]

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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[Scotsblood]

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

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.

 

[Scotsblood]

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.

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.

 

[Grianan]

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.

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.

 

[Podney]

Wow this thread has caused some bother out of a simple thing like a ship on the sea.

I found it quite entertaining and informative. Anyway,the rest of it was all your fault,for asking questions

 

[jwells]

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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[Zigisla]

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!!!

General Service surface fleet are still Fish Heads, Submariners; Bubble Heads, Fleet Air Arm; WAFUs.
Then we have Crabfats, Pongoes and Bootnecks

 

[Wildbill]

Does he have any carriers left? I don't think so.

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.

 

[Podney]

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.

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. .
Sorry for thread drift folks,but it lightens the mornings “discussion”

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

Does he have any carriers left? I don't think so.

Perhaps he can commission a shiny new spangly carrier from his Chinese buddy?

 

[Jim]

Perhaps he can commission a shiny new spangly carrier from his Chinese buddy?

If he does, I'm sure Zelenskyy will enjoy holing it below the water line.

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[The Wino]

If he does, I'm sure Zelenskyy will enjoy holing it below the water line.

Only a madman would send a carrier when they have land bases within easy reach................wait a minute!

 

[SIFTA SAM]

General Service surface fleet are still Fish Heads, Submariners; Bubble Heads, Fleet Air Arm; WAFUs.
Then we have Crabfats, Pongoes and Bootnecks

Fleet Air Arm also 'Hairy Fairies'

 

[pelican]

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?

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.

 

[Yorick]

Nice to se it actually floating unlike it sister ship in dry dock again.
Wildbill

If it's the HMS Prince of Wales, isn't it brother ship?

 

[HarryML7]

If it's the HMS Prince of Wales, isn't it brother ship?

Are you trying to open another can of worms as to why ships are referred to using the female gender?

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