Life on board HMS Duncan -'Warship' - Ch5 - 26 Nov

[CharlieOneSix]

Channel 5 TV, will be broadcasting a 4 part mini-series documentary called “Warship” which will begin transmission on Monday 26th November. The programme will follow daily life onboard HMS DUNCAN during a recent deployment.

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The ship is commanded by Commander Eleanor Stack Royal Navy, who is one of the few female CO’ s currently deployed on operational service.

Female CO's of ships is nothing new. Back in the Middle Ages they had one or two. The coat of arms of the city of Bristol commemorates one such lady who tried reverse parking her ship but ended up going through the city walls:

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[zarniwoop]

HMS DUNCAN

I can't see that putting the fear of god into the enemy.

"Oh look, here comes Duncan, how jolly."

[OFSO]

Rum, the lash and sodomy. And that was just on a 48hr leave....

[ian16th]

Rum, the lash and sodomy. And that was just on a 48hr leave....

That was the Wardroom!

For the lower deck it was, Rum, Bum & Concertina!
(George Melly)

[Cacophonix]

Talking of female naval types.

Women pirates were quite the thing and one that comes to mind is Princess Sela who was the sister of Koller, king of Norway.

Sister of Koller, king of Norway. Horwendil (later to be father of Amleth/Hamlet) was King of Jutland but gave up the throne to become a pirate. Koller "deemed it would be a handsome deed" to kill the pirate and sailed to find the pirate fleet. Horwendil killed Koller but had to later kill Sela, who was a skilled warrior and experienced pirate, to end the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy

Caco

[Cacophonix]

HMS DUNCAN

I can't see that putting the fear of god into the enemy.

"Oh look, here comes Duncan, how jolly."

The chap the ship was named after was quite a character and hailed from C16's neck of the woods...

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Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, lived from 1 July 1731 to 4 August 1804. He was an admiral in the Royal Navy who defeated the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dunc ... unt_Duncan

Caco

[FD2]

Hail Admiral Duncan who restored British pride after years of the Dutch inflicting embarrassing defeats on the Royal Navy. Well done that man! He died at Cornhill, just south over the Tweed from Coldstream. There is a good fishing hotel there named the Collingwood Arms. It was named after a local family with strong links to Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who took over control of the Mediterranean Fleet after Nelson's death.

Collingwood ran the show very effectively for several years despite increasingly poor health and a refusal on the part of the Admiralty to send a replacement. When he was eventually relieved of his command he set off for home and family in Newcastle, only to die on the way. The many oaks growing in the College Valley in the Cheviots, were planted by him on his estate land but ironically metal had succeeded wood for shipbuilding by the time they matured.

[G-CPTN]

ironically metal had succeeded wood for shipbuilding by the time they matured.

As happened with Kielder Forest which was planned to provide timber for pit props (and work for hand sawyers - which the chainsaw ruined).
Oh and Kielder Water was planned to provide water for the steel industry on Teesside . . .

[OFSO]

Mt Ventoux, which you may have seen The Tour cycle up now and then, is bare at the top as the trees were felled to build ships of the French navy. Bit pointless, that.

[ian16th]

The Forest of Dean was the source of much of the oak that went into Nelsons ships.

One piece of trivia that I picked up when I resided there, Nelson himself would select the trees to be felled.

[ian16th]

Mt Ventoux, which you may have seen The Tour cycle up now and then, is bare at the top as the trees were felled to build ships of the French navy. Bit pointless, that.

When I installed a Eureka Mk VII at Base Aérienne 115 Orange-Caritat in 1958, the 'shadow' caused by that damn mountain stopped MY Eureka from being classed at the highest level.

Oh, and a doped up Englishman named Simpson died trying to ride a bike up there.

[CharlieOneSix]

HMS Duncan's CO, Commander Stack, is a rather statuesque lady who is 6ft 2ins tall...and a Glaswegian - probably she puts the fear of God into any Jack unlucky enough to end up with her towering over him/her on Defaulters.

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[FD2]

Jings, crivens! That's a hell of an impressive ship so really good luck to her.

[CharlieOneSix]

I'm biased being ex-Royal Navy but that first episode was well worth watching. A day or so into a 7 month deployment a 36 year old helicopter engineer had a heart attack off Portugal and had to be airlifted ashore by the ship's Wildcat helicopter. As part of a four ship NATO patrol in the Black Sea, Duncan was harassed by a Russian Krivak frigate and buzzed by Su-24 Fencers. A man overboard call appeared genuine but turned out to be a log with a branch sticking up in the air.

I think they said they can track an object the size of a cricket ball travelling at mach 3 at 100-150 miles range! A bit of light relief was the sick bay female 'condom fairy' going round the messdecks with envelopes of condoms for shore leave - she had written things on the envelopes like "Don't be a fool - put it on your tool".

Episode 2 next Monday night, Ch 5.

[Undried Plum]

One hopes that the tall bird isn't caught shagging her Wardroom chums the way this bint got caught shagging her newly married third-in-command.


Rum and sodomy are long-standing habits in the Wardroom, but hetero-rumpypumpy are not yet approved and will require at least two centuries and a dozen wars to become declared as being a naval tradition.

[Boac]

Well, Plum - you cannae beat the real thing.

[FD2]

"You wouldn't want to fill the house with kids, would you?" said Jack Tar to his ignorant new wife, when she asked him what "having sex the other way round" meant.

Women seem to be doing it for themselves these days - female teachers shagging the boys and female officers jumping on their juniors. Is it a hormonal imbalance caused by being in a position of power, like men in powerful jobs sometimes seem to have, or do they have to be a bit 'different' to get the job in the first place? A little bit of sociopathy as well?

Anyway thanks for the review C16 - let's hope the programme will be shown down here sometime. Russians just can't help themselves can they? Love the personal condom service - it used to be a big help yourself box by the gangway.

[k3k3]

All this talk of rumpy-pumpy reminds me, they didn't explain how they rectified the problem with the lack of power to the port screw...

[Boac]

He probably went on sick leave?

[Boac]

I would imagine the 'Port Screw' had a lot of attention during the visit in Romania.