[BITList] Type 45 Destroyers

[Michael Feltham]

Hugh,

I’d heard mutterings about cutbacks in finance for the ships, hence not sufficient generator power.

Mind you in Denholms, I was on a Tanker, we were in Le Havre.  The Chief told me that we didn’t have sufficient power due to the cooling tubes for the Gennies being choked.  The Super came up shortly afterwards and said we were OK.  ( The Supers travelled with their Chief’s Ticket in case they fired the Chief !)

A few hours after sailing we lost power and were drifting for a few hours North of the Channel Islands.  We had 2 oil lights up, if a another ship got too close we put the Aldis on to show the size of the ship !  For some reason our Emergency Gennie did not work.

Mike
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> On 11 Feb 2016, at 16:43, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
>  
> I'm surprised major balls-ups didn't appear sooner, what with 1, maybe 2, year apprenticeships, 6 week training courses, plumbers in charge of engineers, and the like. A friend who left the MOD shipbuilding environment 10-12 years ago told me of asking a training course trained numpty why, in the pipe arrangement then visible on his screen, he had drawn the pipes snaking all over the place.  "That's what it shows on the diagram," was the answer.  He hadn't actually drawn the pipes, just brought them into being via software - my friend doubted if he'd ever seen a pipe, let alone a ship.
>  
> Hugh.
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