Nothing wrong with a little seawater sloshing around in the bilges.

Well they have at least four years to fix the leak before HMS White Elephant becomes fully operational.

Prop shaft seals are notoriously hard to get right. Until you test hard at sea in actual loadings its hard to predict degree and mode of flexing

It was enamel paint accidentally spilled during painting, which blocked the test cock on one of the inner tube doors which sank the submarine HMS Thetis in 1939 whilst undergoing sea trials off the North West coast.

What on earth does that have to do with the QE...??

Will the repair require some special force and a Navy Seal?

No, don't get up ... I'll let myself out.

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JAS

"Just enough water to keep her sweet" as the Salesman said but 200 litres an hour? Presumably it's being pumped over the side with a little bit of bunker oil to "sweeten" it.!!!

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What kind of Warranty was provided.....is it watertight!

Shock news that ship takes in small amount of water, as does every other ship built in entirety of human existence...

The point may be too subtle. The example I gave demonstrates that no matter how much care is taken when building these sea going vessels, they may require repairs/modifications during or following sea trials to make them water tight. The submarine was raised, renamed and was used during the War.

Roving is right... up to a point

Sea trials are to test things you cant test in the dockyard.

IIRC the "Dreadnaught" almost finished up doing ever decreasing circles in mi Atlantic on her trials in ?1906

Great news. We build a huge complex prototype to a completely untried design and the most serious problem to emerge in trials appears to be a dodgy propshaft seal. BZ to all concerned.

Leaking at 200 litres an hour - sounds a lot

Converts to 6 pints a minute. An AB with a jug could deal with that!

This mornings Times says every british destroyer, frigate & Cv is in port right now in the UK.......

Perhaps the Times has neglected to consider the time of year.


As it has also neglected to consider that with the exceptions below, pretty much all UK forces are currently at their "home" locations.


There's something like 8 or 9 ships/subs deployed worldwide, the army presence in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Baltics and the Akrotiri-based contribution to Shader.

Operational commitments end for a Fortnight at Christmas do they?

Many of them seem to be buggered TBH............

Go right ahead and identify those requiring a deployed DD/FF or major warship at this particular moment.....


The operational commitments that need to be filled at this precise moment are filled. I think they call it programming....

Have you been frequenting those establishments again?

Well there are the Antarctic patrol, Falklands patrol and Atlantic patrol; of which the Antarctic survey ship can fulfill one, but not all three. Plus there is the Gulf patrol. At home there is the FRE/TAPS, but it is difficult to assess if any of those in port are at a readiness to fulfill the role.

https://publications.parliament.uk/p.../221/22113.htm