Ships!

[trailrunner]

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sometimes it'll still work if you don't follow those guidelines, but not reliably.

if you do follow them, it works about 99% of the time

Thanks!

[besilarius]

HMS Coventry rolling over after a missile strike in the Falklands.
She rolled over about twenty minutes after being struck twice.  The Royal Navy training school, HMS Raleigh, took this to heart and in their exercises,  the trainees have to save the ship in about 27 minutes.

In a show of stiff upper lip, the crew in liferafts sang Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.

Have to wonder if they followed that great Royal Navy tradition and cleaned out the rum locker before going over the side.

[bob48]

I remember it all too well.

[judgedredd]

Yep. That and several others. A costly little war money wise for the UK.

[BanzaiCat]

I have a question for those more in tune with ship classes - I'm doing a basic re-write of an old game (Hunt for Red October). It doesn't explain the different ship classes (e.g., FF, SSN, etc.) so I thought I'd put a brief description (a sentence or two) in there. I was able to garner quite a bit of info online, but one class I'm not certain of is the FFL. I know that's a Light Frigate, but what is a Light Frigate's mission, in one or two sentences, as opposed to a regular FF?

[mirth]

I have a question for those more in tune with ship classes - I'm doing a basic re-write of an old game (Hunt for Red October). It doesn't explain the different ship classes (e.g., FF, SSN, etc.) so I thought I'd put a brief description (a sentence or two) in there. I was able to garner quite a bit of info online, but one class I'm not certain of is the FFL. I know that's a Light Frigate, but what is a Light Frigate's mission, in one or two sentences, as opposed to a regular FF?

It is Frigate Light. Must be an old designation because modern frigates are already pretty light types. I imagine they are dedicated ASW ships with little to no Anti-Air/Anti-surface capability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hull_classifications#F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirka-class_frigate

[mirth]

French Richelieu class battleship Jean Bart

[mirth]

HMS Victorious on a visit to New York, early 1960's. In the background is the French Liner Liberte.

[Staggerwing]

Are those Sea Vixens and Scimitars on the flight deck, along with a couple of Gannets?

[mirth]

Looks like

[mirth]

JS KAGA (DDH-184) (left) and JS IZUMO (DDH-183), Tokyo Bay, 26NOV19

[Staggerwing]

^ One quarter of a Kido Butai.

[BanzaiCat]

Uh-oh...Kaga, Part 2. 

[besilarius]

Banzai, in regards to FFL. I asked a number of people with some knowledge of the fleet.  Here is the most complete answer:

"OK - My guess it is not a USN designation for any real ships - there's never been a FFL-1. I suspect that "light frigate" is a name for a proposal. The Navy is calling the follow-on to the LCS a "frigate", and the " FFG(X)", and some shipbuildears are calling proposals for their own LCS-sized ships "light multirole frigates". Of course, it could relate to some forgotten proposal of years ago."

[BanzaiCat]

Thanks mirth and besilarius, much appreciated.