Posted on 11/08/2018 6:43:24 AM PST by Gamecock
A Norwegian warship was heavily damaged in a collision with a Maltese oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.
According to Norwegian media reports Thursday, the frigate is in danger of sinking after sustaining heavy damage. The oil tanker is reportedly undamaged.
Several reports confirmed that all 137 crew on the navy ship were evacuated but seven have been treated for minor injuries.
"The armed forces is now reviewing all the means available in the region to assist the KNM Helge Ingstad (the damaged warship)," Lieutenant Colonel Ivar Moen told AFP.
According to the website Marine Traffic, the 62,000-ton oil tanker Sola is continuing its route from Norway to a terminal in northeast England.
However, one separate media report said that despite suffering only superficial damage, the tanker is now at a standstill and waiting to be towed back into a Norwegian port.
Reuters reported that the Equinor Sture oil shipment terminal, from where the oil tanker left, has been closed as a precautionary measure.
Let's not forget that the LIEBERALS under Jean Crouton in 1998, purchased four used submarines from the British, the four Upholder-class, er, White Elephant-class submarines, the ones with the screen doors on the bottom. They worked out so VERY well! What could go wrong with the RCN of purchasing the KNM Helge Ingstad?
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Might have something to do with 62,000 tons vs 5290 tons ...
“Is this a new type of warfare?”
This is exactly what I’m thinking. The idea these ships collided by accident is VERY questionable.
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To be fair, collisions can happen easily unless both ships have alert bridge crews. My ship came closer than I like to remember to an oil tanker that was running very fast, in heavy fog, with no lights. A submarine’s sonar might not hear the engines with all that oil in between, and warships often run under EMCON - without using radio/radar. That’s why we have lookouts and trained professionals.
Sad story. Queen Mary was under orders to stop for nothing.
The warship went down with all hands.
Just don’t use the ones with the hole in the middle.
Slowly at first. Then, all at once.
“Again with a warship that seems incapable of avoiding a slow moving tanker the size of a football field. What is going on.”
Hanky-panky on the bridge?
Caused by a zig that should have been a zag.
I don’t get it.
An oil tanker is basically a bag full of oil, the metal skin could be made very thin and would still work.
A warship is supposed (in my mind) to be able to ram smaller (or bigger) ships and keep going.
How come these supposed warships (including our two destroyers (?) that crashed in the china sea) are so FRAGILE?
It gives me very little confidence on their capabilities during a real war.
It makes me think of the movie Battleship where they ended up using a museum battleship to battle aliens, after all other ships had been destroyed, since it was the only one beefy enough to take the hits.
Hmmm... Chinese motherboard or female navigator?
The thing looks to be grounded on rocks. I suspect it was pushed onto the rocks by the tanker and crushed between them, and that caused the damage. The coastal waters around Norway are perilous.
In ancient roman times, ships fought by ramming each other and then troops would board and kill. Today, ships fight by throwing projectiles and aircraft at distant targets. Armoring them for such a thing would add large amounts of weight to them, which would require a lot more fuel and make them far less maneuverable. They simply aren't meant to collide with anything ever.
Pining for the Fjords it looks like.
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