Originally Posted by
WilliumMate
This is only news because of what ship it is. The worst offender may receive a warrant punishment, the others disrating (if they have any to lose), fines and stoppage of leave. If they face any civil punishment then they will have to request to be awarded consequential naval penalties.
The bit in bold? No they won’t.
At a guess, fines and leave, in a ratio that punishes appropriately - most likely leave for the most junior, fines for the more senior (as fines are related to daily rate of pay).
Beating the crap out of each other doesn't really suggest it is a happy ship.
Not really, at a guess, it’s either they didn’t know one another (pretty easy in a ship with 100s of JRs in mulitple messes), or more likely, young men full of beer acting like young men full of beer.
I’d be far more worried if they were beating each other up when sober.