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| Back she goes: Britain's £3billion Big Lizzie warship moors in Portsmouth docks after navy chiefs she wouldn't take part in NATO drills after they found 'issue' with propeller shaft | |
| 2024-02-04 | |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The £3.5billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was set to launch in European waters to take part in the largest NATO wargame since the Cold War as fears grow for a wider conflict breaking out with Russia. Engineers found a 'significant issue with her starboard propeller shaft', meaning the British warship could be docked for 'a couple of months' while it is fixed, according to naval experts. This morning the huge aircraft carrier was seen sailing into Portsmouth - hundreds of miles away from the NATO exercise. HMS Prince of Wales will now be readied to replace the faulty ship - a move viewed by some as ironic given the aircraft carrier only went back into service last July after also undergoing repairs that took nearly a year. Announcing the latest problem, the Royal Navy posted on X: 'Routine pre-sailing checks yesterday identified an issue with a coupling on HMS Queen Elizabeth starboard propeller shaft. As such, the ship will not sail on Sunday.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #14 ^ Yeah, a bad screw can ruin your hole day! |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2024-02-04 20:36 |
| #13 If I have a propellor shaft problem, half a Vi@gra will fix it. |
| Posted by: Raj 2024-02-04 20:18 |
| #12 What’s the naval version of a hanger queen? Dock condo. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-02-04 19:27 |
| #11 Well played! Limeric - a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-02-04 17:55 |
| #10 To serve on a carrier's neato, Especially wielding a veto: "We couldn't be prouder Of Choudary's chowder!" Cue Cookie, hijabed, incognito. I forget... is rhyming with yourself three times or four? More than two, anyway. |
| Posted by: Angusogum Brown2016 2024-02-04 17:33 |
| #9 @#5 How about 'Schmidt' then? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-02-04 17:23 |
| #8 Slay Queen! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-04 16:57 |
| #7 ^ NOT the size of a hanger |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-02-04 16:54 |
| #6 Ugh; Big Lizzo. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-02-04 16:47 |
| #5 What’s the naval version of a hanger queen? Don't anyone say the Kuznetsov... |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-02-04 16:01 |
| #4 Admiral Nelson does the facepalm. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-02-04 15:05 |
| #3 ghost of Admiral Beatty: "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-02-04 15:02 |
| #2 ^Now days Britania is ruled by the wave of immigrants. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-04 14:41 |
| #1 The days when Britannia ruled the wave in the wake of history. |
| Posted by: Too Old To Work 2024-02-04 14:36 |