I've noticed that the RAN seems to scuttle a large portion of its decomms.
We've started doing some of that over here, but not at what appears to be
the same frequency. We do some of ours as dive reefs, but others explained
explicitly as fisheries reefs. I don't know how much meaningful overlap is
in those two categories, but would imagine that dive reefs must be much
more shallow. We dumped a lot of tanks and airplanes into the water to
make fish reefs as well. Which is not the most obvious idea of what to do
with old tanks and planes.
Back to ships, though, we sink far more of them in operational SinkExes to
get in weapons training. Too bad, because I would have liked to see some
of the old SpruCans in service someplace else.
> The oldest pair were decommissioned some years ago leaving 4 still
> commissioned but these will be progressively decommissioned. Our warships
> seem to be being turned into dive wrecks when disposed of an there is a
> lot
> of competition to get one. Don't know what the fate of the ex-Newports
> will
> be though.
>
> Antony
>
> -----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
>
> Might have something to do with it. We've been retiring a bunch of LPDs
> and
> selling them off, but they're about the same vintage as the Newports.
> And the RAN already has OH Perrys, so don't need any of those (and
> retiring
> the ones they had, right?). I think the US was hoping to sell some of the
> LCSs, but I don't think they're fooling anyone.
>
>> One of them has definitely been retired, the other I believe was
>> declared unseaworthy last year and has been replaced with a LSD
>> purchased from the downsizing Royal Navy. In the meantime we are
>> having built two LHDs built in Spain. I could not find them on the
>> RANs website.
>> http://www.navy.gov.au/The_Fleet
>>
>> I don't know if it was the result of problems with the ex-Newports but
>> our navy has not bought anything major from the US since. It looks
>> like most of the fleet is now based on European designs. The ANZAC
>> class frigates were a Meko design for example, the LHDs and air
>> warfare destroyers Spanish.
>>
>> Antony
>
>
We've started doing some of that over here, but not at what appears to be
the same frequency. We do some of ours as dive reefs, but others explained
explicitly as fisheries reefs. I don't know how much meaningful overlap is
in those two categories, but would imagine that dive reefs must be much
more shallow. We dumped a lot of tanks and airplanes into the water to
make fish reefs as well. Which is not the most obvious idea of what to do
with old tanks and planes.
Back to ships, though, we sink far more of them in operational SinkExes to
get in weapons training. Too bad, because I would have liked to see some
of the old SpruCans in service someplace else.
> The oldest pair were decommissioned some years ago leaving 4 still
> commissioned but these will be progressively decommissioned. Our warships
> seem to be being turned into dive wrecks when disposed of an there is a
> lot
> of competition to get one. Don't know what the fate of the ex-Newports
> will
> be though.
>
> Antony
>
> -----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
>
> Might have something to do with it. We've been retiring a bunch of LPDs
> and
> selling them off, but they're about the same vintage as the Newports.
> And the RAN already has OH Perrys, so don't need any of those (and
> retiring
> the ones they had, right?). I think the US was hoping to sell some of the
> LCSs, but I don't think they're fooling anyone.
>
>> One of them has definitely been retired, the other I believe was
>> declared unseaworthy last year and has been replaced with a LSD
>> purchased from the downsizing Royal Navy. In the meantime we are
>> having built two LHDs built in Spain. I could not find them on the
>> RANs website.
>> http://www.navy.gov.au/The_Fleet
>>
>> I don't know if it was the result of problems with the ex-Newports but
>> our navy has not bought anything major from the US since. It looks
>> like most of the fleet is now based on European designs. The ANZAC
>> class frigates were a Meko design for example, the LHDs and air
>> warfare destroyers Spanish.
>>
>> Antony
>
>