Submarine Fleet

[Bright Halo]

Are all our subs in dock?

[Scrump]

Laid up submarines awaiting disposal.

[bigandclever]

They’ve been there for ages.

[moktabe]

Have a mate who's a Submariner.

Apparently half of them are out of service.

[junglie]

Here are the others.

[MiniMan64]

The first image is Devonport which is all decommissioning isn’t it?

[Scrump]

moktabe said:

Have a mate who's a Submariner.

Apparently half of them are out of service.

Your mate is half right.

[ApOrbital]

Aye that's 50/50.

[Scrump]

MiniMan64 said:

The first image is Devonport which is all decommissioning isn’t it?

The ones in the image are awaiting disposal but Devonport also has the in service boats in for refits/refuelling etc. as required.

[FourWheelDrift]

Yep, there's about 20 awaiting disposal at Devonport and Rosyth, subs from the Valiant, Resolution, Churchill, Swiftsure and Trafalgar classes, plus Dreadnought.

[McGee_22]

Here's the lowdown on UK Submarine disposal...

https://www.navylookout.com/the-painfully-slow-pro...

[Bright Halo]

That is interesting reading and has fully explained what is going on.
Thank you

[Spare tyre]

I’ll have one

[Psycho Warren]

you wouldnt want one most were heavily stripped out and are basically empty hulks.

[FourWheelDrift]

Psycho Warren said:

you wouldnt want one most were heavily stripped out and are basically empty hulks.

Half the job done already, just nail some wood flooring down. off to Ikea for some furniture and your on your way to having a nuclear powered AirBnB

[Scrump]

A few years ago our offices were becoming very full and we were looking around for larger premises.
There was a suggestion of mooring a few of these decommissioned boats in the docks near the office and moving all the ex submariners onboard.
The ex matelots seemed okay with this on the condition that they received sea pay

[Teddy Lop]

McGee_22 said:

Here's the lowdown on UK Submarine disposal...

https://www.navylookout.com/the-painfully-slow-pro...

Wow that's scandalous.

I thought it was the russians with the ticking time bomb nuclear vessel disposal problem that we should be most concerned about

That actually shifts my opinion a little on the debate on whether we should operate these types of vessel.

[McGee_22]

Teddy Lop said:

Wow that's scandalous.

I thought it was the russians with the ticking time bomb nuclear vessel disposal problem that we should be most concerned about

That actually shifts my opinion a little on the debate on whether we should operate these types of vessel.

Scandalous? Not really - wander up onto the granite moors of Devon and Cornwall and you'll get a higher dose of radiation than if you stand on the casing of one of those old hulks.

Time consuming and technically difficult to dispose of a submarine - certainly; but once they've done the first one (Swiftsure?) they'll fully develop the program and get cracking on the rest.

[Scrump]

There is world of difference between how the UK looks after old boats and the way Russia does.

[Condi]

McGee_22 said:

Scandalous? Not really - wander up onto the granite moors of Devon and Cornwall and you'll get a higher dose of radiation than if you stand on the casing of one of those old hulks.

Time consuming and technically difficult to dispose of a submarine - certainly; but once they've done the first one (Swiftsure?) they'll fully develop the program and get cracking on the rest.

"Get cracking" in the mind of a nuclear engineer means somewhere between 3-5 years if it's not too complicated, or decades if requires more paperwork!