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Sunk at Narvik	Bay Watch	Lead	[-]
Posts: 2234 ( 9-Apr-2008 11:02:07) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It had to happen The four new LPD's are scattered to the four winds this month.. Cardigan Bay is in the Gulf Largs Bay in the Carribean Lyme Bay at Tristan de Cunha Mounts Bay in the Arctic (or was..) Some nice pics: Mounts Bay with Albion & Bulwark Lyme Bay of TdeC Largs Bay at Grand Turk (nice) (note the hanger) Cardigan Bay with Argus in Gulf of Aden
Rob		#1	[-]
Posts: 590 ( 9-Apr-2008 13:58:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Great post, thanks.
hulahoop7		#2	[-]
Posts: 1081 ( 9-Apr-2008 14:24:25) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wouldn't mind pulling a few shifts on Largs.
Alexius55		#3	[-]
Posts: 259 ( 9-Apr-2008 14:28:39) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Would Lyme Bay be landing equipment to build the airport?
Sunk at Narvik		#4	[-]
Posts: 2236 ( 9-Apr-2008 15:07:56) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No, she's just fixing up the breakwater before the winter.
Anixtu		#5	[-]
Posts: 173 ( 9-Apr-2008 21:04:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I wouldn't mind pulling a few shifts on Largs. 'Twas much fun. There isn't very much at Grand Turk but the ocean topography is amazing. Where the water turns from light to dark blue is a sheer drop of hundreds of metres. I think it bottoms out around 2000m there. The cruise ship terminal in the picture is a very new facility only opened in the last couple of years.
MSR		#6	[-]
Posts: 2651 ( 9-Apr-2008 22:26:53) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Wow, now that you've pointed that out I actually feel slightly dizzy looking at that picture, as though Largs and the cruise ship would "fall" off the edge! The aim of diplomacy is to achieve results, not win arguments
jock		#7	[-]
Posts: 948 ( 9-Apr-2008 23:23:00) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Can someone remind me why it was decided the 4 Bays would be RFA and not HMS? Last Edited By: jock 9-Apr-2008 23:25:48. Edited 1 times.
BenRoethig		#8	[-]
Posts: 1747 (10-Apr-2008 02:50:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	60 Civilians are much cheaper than 250 sailors.
ashley		#9	[-]
Posts: 76 (10-Apr-2008 11:23:11) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	They replace the "Knights of the round table " class - Sir Galahad , etc which were also RFA, I guess because they are supplying logistics to a beachhead, rather than the pure assault role, and civilians do cost a lot less than RN personal ! If the bays are armed ,CIWS or bofors, Chaff rockets etc ? Are the civilians training to shoot them or do they have a handful of RN embarked when they need to fire at things ?
Anixtu		#10	[-]
Posts: 174 (10-Apr-2008 11:51:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Bays are presently armed with miniguns and GPMGs which RFA personnel operate and maintain. The same goes for 20mm and 30mm guns fitted to RFAs. Phalanx as fitted to Fort George are operated and maintained by RN personnel. You do get some variations. For example Argus has 20mm and GPMGs - the 20mm are operated by RFA personnel and some of the GPMGs by the WE department of the permanent naval party.

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