Originally Posted by
Strucky
Serious question, how can a ship be in maintenance for 8 years (or 2 or 3 years)?
Quite simple. Lack of spares and logistic support. Daring went into extended readiness after Dauntless (when she went to get her PIP). She had a lot of work done in Portsmouth on the upkeep and combat system side, before she was towed to Cammell Laird for her PIP. Trouble was, due to lack of spares in the logs chain, she was STOROBed to keep the other ships going. Which in turn hampered her regeneration in Birkenhead, to the extent she was towed back to Pompey to finish commissioning of the plant. Notable that Lairds didn't get another PIP job - because trying to secure commissioning engineers and a functional plant was too difficult, 300 miles from her base.
She's due on trials late summer. Definitely not a thing to repeat, but absolute exemplar of why cutting the logs contracts (dates back to original T45 contracts) is always a bad idea. She will at least come out again, which many have doubted over the years.....