HMCS Preserver smashes into dock - 4 Nov 2011

[Occam]

Wooops!



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A naval ship best known for helping out areas of the world in crisis might now be in need of some help itself.

HMCS Preserver sustained some damage Friday afternoon when it ran into a dock in Halifax.

There's been no word about what caused the collision. However, the navy has scheduled a news conference about the incident later today.

HMCS Preserver, a supply ship that’s helped out people in disasters and other crises all over the world, has been in a multi-million dollar refit at the Irving-owned shipyard in Halifax.

 

[jollyjacktar]

OUCH#!@#!@  Someone will have some spaining to do.  I don't envy who's in the hot seat now.  :facepalm:

 

[yoman]

HMCS Preserver runs into Halifax dock

HMCS Preserver bumped into a dock at the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard Friday afternoon.

It happened just before 3 p.m. and no one was injured.

"It's really too early to determine the extent of the damage to the ship," Major Paul Doucette, spokesman for Martime Forces Atlantic, told reporters late Friday afternoon.

HMCS Preserver was returning from engineering trials when it hit the dock.

Doucette said there were no indications of any spilled fuel and that the damage was high, above water level, near the bow.

HMCS Preserver is an auxiliary replenishment vessel. It carries oil for other ships and helicopters at sea. The standard-sized crew for the ship is about 300.

Doucette said he couldn't comment about damage to the dock.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/11/04/ns-hmcs-preserver-hits-dock.html

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[Occam]

The standard-sized crew for the ship is about 300.

Unless they've seriously cut back on the duff selection, I don't ever remember the crew being standard-sized.  ;D

 

[brihard]

"Career answers all stop".

 

[Towards_the_gap]

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There's been no word about what caused the collision.

umm.....It didn't stop?????? No need for a BofI now!

 

[brihard]

umm.....It didn't stop?????? No need for a BofI now!

Indeed. In the strictest sense I'd say the collision was caused by inertia.

 

[Hammer Sandwich]

COUGH! (last person I saw that made fun of NAVY accidents got sent up the warning ladder)....COUGH.

Sorry....I'm a smoker.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Shoulda had some of them little white dock bumpers like you see on sailboats. Maybe that woulda helped some. >

 

[Stoker]

Not the first time she was involved in a accident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2vW7B5JLmY

 

[Towards_the_gap]

Will the driver have his 404 revoked and have to give a safety brief on docking?

I can imagine a little pickup, dockside, with a yellow winky pot on top and an MSE Op with a clipboard scratching his head thinking 'How am I going to investigate this one?'

 

[lethalLemon]

Not the first time she was involved in a accident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2vW7B5JLmY

Oh no, not again, Marty drop his pencil at the wheel.

 

[Hammer Sandwich]

Clear case of, "Navigation by Braille".

 

[agnivohneb]

Not the first time she was involved in a accident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2vW7B5JLmY

I would have crapped my pants if I was on the HMS Penelope. The Preserver is a lot of ship to be charging into.

 

[FlyingDutchman]

Will the driver have his 404 revoked and have to give a safety brief on docking?

I can imagine a little pickup, dockside, with a yellow winky pot on top and an MSE Op with a clipboard scratching his head thinking 'How am I going to investigate this one?'

With a large cup of coffee and a large cup of rum afterwards?

 

[Hawk]

There was a rumour around when I was in (1960's) that the base commander at Cornwallis ran the Bonaventure into a jetty in San Juan, and that's how he was promoted and sent to Cornwallis where he couldn't do any more harm. Its hard to run a cement frigate aground!

Hawk

 

[Occam]

There was a rumour around when I was in (1960's) that the base commander at Cornwallis ran the Bonaventure into a jetty in San Juan, and that's how he was promoted and sent to Cornwallis where he couldn't do any more harm. Its hard to run a cement frigate aground!

Hawk

The expression is actually "stone frigate".  ;D

 

[Hawk]

Actually, when I was in we used stone frigate, land-locked frigate and cement frigate.

Hawk

 

[jollyjacktar]

Not the first time she was involved in a accident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2vW7B5JLmY

And that's why we called her the old F.A.R.T.  (Fast Attack Replenishment Tanker).  As I understand, HMS Penelope's keel was broken by that incident and she was paid off shortly thereafter.

 

[Stoker]

She was paid off and was then sold to the Ecuadorian navy where she spent a further 17 years in service.