Quote from: flamingpig0 on 12 April 2021, 03:25:58 PM
So basically a lie?

A bit like the Navy planning "through-deck cruisers" (Invincible class) in the 60's, when aircraft carrier was a dirty word (or two).

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 12 April 2021, 04:20:30 PM
No. Remember that 'Hospital' ships in the 50's were basically 'transports' and not 'Surgical Hospitals' as we would think of them... but available for 'basic care' if needed. It WAS, however, a 'Yacht' for 'showing the Flag'. I have a short clip of home movie on

Did it really have medical facilities that could be quickly activated if  needed?  Such as HMS Argus had.

Quote from: Raider4 on 12 April 2021, 04:35:53 PM
A bit like the Navy planning "through-deck cruisers" (Invincible class) in the 60's, when aircraft carrier was a dirty word (or two).

Just as well they did! Although, they were not 'meant' to carry fast jets, they  ended up being pretty useful... at least ONCE! lol.  Just maybe, the Navy actually had learned from 'other nations' 'strategic planning' in the 'Washington Treaty' years, pre-WW2? Or Not..   

Quote from: flamingpig0 on 12 April 2021, 10:49:56 AM
Apparently there are plans to spend 190 million on a commemorative Royal Yacht to be named HMS Mountbatten

Or revert to the original "Battenburg", then paint the boat in jolly colourful squares.

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 12 April 2021, 05:32:45 PM
Or revert to the original "Battenburg", then paint the boat in jolly colourful squares.

I would vote for that

Quote from: hammurabi70 on 12 April 2021, 02:47:39 PM
I thought the name was suggested as HMY Duke of Edinburgh.

I agree it should be built in the UK; every time I contact my MP I mention building hospital ships using DFID funds - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/new-british-hospital-ships-proposed/

Perhaps one might be named Duke of Edinburgh.

The popular poll suggested Dukey McDukeface.

Wow, how far off topic are we?

Quote from: Raider4 on 12 April 2021, 04:35:53 PM
A bit like the Navy planning "through-deck cruisers" (Invincible class) in the 60's, when aircraft carrier was a dirty word (or two).

Other people might have drawn lessons from that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo-class_helicopter_destroyer

Quote from: Raider4 on 12 April 2021, 02:57:28 PM
Shirley Williams, ex-Labour minister and founder of the SDP (remember them?). Aged 90.

Now it's the "Gang of Two".

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 12 April 2021, 05:37:16 PM
Wow, how far off topic are we?

Nobody really wants a thread named "2021 Deaths" to be all doom and gloom.

I vote for the Royal Yacht "HMY Chooky Embra"

Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 12 April 2021, 05:42:27 PM
Nobody really wants a thread named "2021 Deaths" to be all doom and gloom.

It WILL return... 'Death and Taxes... '   

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 12 April 2021, 06:05:46 PM
It WILL return... 'Death and Taxes... '   

Yes, but we never talk about taxes!!

Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 April 2021, 05:54:45 PM
I vote for the Royal Yacht "HMY Chooky Embra"

Is that the Lallans version?

Random thought- in the event of Scottish Independence Jim Sillars wants one of the aircraft carriers!!!

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 12 April 2021, 07:52:21 PM
Yes, but we never talk about taxes!!

Why not ?

Quote from: flamingpig0 on 12 April 2021, 04:45:51 PM
Did it really have medical facilities that could be quickly activated if  needed?  Such as HMS Argus had.

Are we talking about Wishbone Ash, again ?

I thought that was in another thread.

Cheers - Phil

Phil change your handle to Complete OIK, thats worthy of Nobby 

Quote from: Techno II on 13 April 2021, 06:07:28 AM
Are we talking about Wishbone Ash, again ?

I thought that was in another thread.

Cheers - Phil

I am more of a  Van der Graaf Generator  sort of person

The Defibulators ain't bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kkHVRllTg

Lol! 

Quote from: Raider4 on 12 April 2021, 04:31:33 PM
Britannia used different fuel to everything else, adding to the logistical complexity, I seem to remember.

What are you remembering?  It got a brief mention during my basic training at DARTMOUTH in dealing with ships' power.  Most ships in the fleet were using gas-turbine engines, HMS BRITANNIA was still on FFF, which in 1954 when it came into service was cutting edge technology, but by the 1980s she was the only ship still using it.  At the time of the Falklands War it was logistically too much hassle to provide fuel in the South Atlantic specifically for just this ship.


One or more hospital ships built and maintained on DFID funds seems a good way of using the money as a stimulus package; as BoJo has just cut DFID funds from 0.7% GDP to 0.5% GDP, on a 'temporary' basis, I should have thought there was financial room to develop such a project.  With outbreaks like EBOLA becoming more frequent and regular disasters around the world, they have global use and they would have been very useful for Covid as additional resources instead of, or additional to, the NIGHTINGALE hospitals.  The Chinese already have three such ships.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 April 2021, 05:54:04 AM
Why not ?

Actually tax has got a mention but it is a rather uninspiring topic for a site like Pendraken.