[BITList] R.N. Crew Crisis !

[michael J Feltham]

Royal Navy numbers crisis leaves ships in peril

A senior officer says the service has lost its sense of fun and trust, and its flagships are left docked or undermanned
By : Mark Hookham and Tim Ripley
Royal Navy warships are being left tied up with their “lights turned off” because of a “profound” shortage of sailors, a navy warfare officer has warned. Lieutenant Commander Andrew Livsey says the personnel crisis is so serious there are “barely” enough sailors to run four of the six £1bn Type 45 destroyers and ships are going to sea without people to maintain or operate equipment “that would be vital in wartime”

. The navy’s shortfall of 1,350 people is being aggravated by the need to operate two new aircraft carriers. In 1991 the force had 61,800 sailors, marines and airmen, but numbers have dropped from 35,150 in 2010 to 29,160 last month.

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