And now there are problems with the ex-Royal Navy vessel as well!
--- In , "Antony Farrell" <skaran@...> wrote:
>
> You might find this article interesting regarding Australia's amphibious
> capacity in 2011. It was the reason we obtained a vessel from the RN since
> the two Spanish ships are still some way from completion.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3139605.htm
>
> Antony
>
> -----Original Message-----
From: dcndcn13@...
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
>
> 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
>
--- In , "Antony Farrell" <skaran@...> wrote:
>
> You might find this article interesting regarding Australia's amphibious
> capacity in 2011. It was the reason we obtained a vessel from the RN since
> the two Spanish ships are still some way from completion.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3139605.htm
>
> Antony
>
> -----Original Message-----
From: dcndcn13@...
Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] RAN
>
> 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
>