Embarrassing: Russian spy ship crashes in fog: sinks

[redrider90]

Nothing political about this one but it is sure embarrassing for the Russkies  .  State of the art Russian spy ship hits a freighter in fog and sinks.
And the Russians blamed the freighter for the accident. 
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39734998
The Russian Black Sea Fleet said the Russian crew had followed all the rules of sailing and manoeuvring and it suggested the incident had been caused by the other ship, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.

[Kiwi_Roy]

I guess their "State of the Art" spy ships don't have radar

[Arizona Wayne]

Maybe the spy ship got too close to what it was spying on. 

[rodekyll]

 As a mariner, I'm always sad to read about stupid collisions. 

Apparently they remembered some of the rules, but not the three important ones:  The #1 rule of boating is don't hit anything and sink your boat, regardless of what else is going on.  The #2 rule is always go a speed that allows you to pull up and stop within half your sight distance.  #3 is don't go faster than the speed at which you wish to collide.  I'd say that skipper broke them all.  He'll be a bilge rat in his next life.

[fotoguzzi]

didn't deploy the fog shield?

[bad Chad]

How state of the art could it be?  It was built 47 years ago!

[webmost]

Some day, if you get the chance, read the hilarious tragedy of the Baltic fleet, which finally met its ruin at the Battle of Tsushima. Starts out with a brand new warship sliding down the ways in St Petersburg. No one thought to tie a line to it -- drifted slow across the channel until it fetched up on a mud bar.

Things went steadily down hill from there until Togo crossed the T on the whole bunch of them.

[webmost]

How state of the art could it be?  It was built 47 years ago!

The hull may be 47.
The radar ought to be new.
47 years ago there was no such thing as GPS.
Now you carry one in your pocket.

[Lannis]

This is "Karma" for the Russians for all the "Nyah Nyah" dancing and pointing they did when the captain of the battleship USS Missouri grounded it in the Chesapeake Bay in 1950.

If you read the record, it sounds like a cross between Capt. Queeg and Capt. Bligh was on the bridge when the Missouri was steaming in a task force exercise in the Bay.   The navigator warned the captain that it was time to make a hard right turn back out into deep water, but the captain had misread the lighthouse and buoys and told him to hold course.   Then the helmsman, seeing that the ship was about to go aground, said so to the captain, which is, of course, a mortal sin, the helmsman being an enlisted man whose job is to follow orders, not to navigate, and the captain ordered him to shut up and hold course as ordered.

The Missouri then powered into a gently sloping mud flat, and went half a mile up onto the flat before its momentum finally ran out.   No damage, but it was high tide and it was well and truly STUCK.

The Russians laughed and laughed and put it in Pravda and sent rude semaphore signals to USN ships.   They didn't stop using it as a "propaganda" tool, although it was perfectly true, for years .... !

Lannis

[oldbike54]

 Inside sources reveal they were in hot pursuit of Moose and Squirrel .

 Dusty

[KiwiKev]

No matter what electronic/ navigation aids you have the nut on the steering wheel makes bad choices sometimes.

A few years back a ship coming into one of our harbors decides to take a short cut and strikes a charted reef & sinks.





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[Pop]

But Boris and Natasha never sank a spy ship while tracking Moose and Squirrel. They did however crash a lot. I miss Frostbite Falls.

Pop

[redrider90]

How state of the art could it be?  It was built 47 years ago!

It was built as a research vessel and decades later retrofitted to a spy vessel. Our B 52 bombers have been in service even longer and have all be retrofitted.
What irony that the freighter was filled with 8000 sheep.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  What country owned the sheep ship?

[KiwiKev]

It was built as a research vessel and decades later retrofitted to a spy vessel. Our B 52 bombers have been in service even longer and have all be retrofitted.
What irony that the freighter was filled with 8000 sheep.

The Ruskies will be feeling a bit sheepish then ;-p


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[Sasquatch Jim]

  Well it was sheep to go , I mean Togo.

[johnr]

No matter what electronic/ navigation aids you have the nut on the steering wheel makes bad choices sometimes.

A few years back a ship coming into one of our harbors decides to take a short cut and strikes a charted reef & sinks.

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The Rena, yes. I doubt that skipper will get another job.

[acogoff]

     Moose and Sqvirrel hiding among the sheep, I bet.

[Tom]

The Rena, yes. I doubt that skipper will get another job.

He might get a job where the Italian cruise ship skipper is at. 

[KiwiKev]

The Rena, yes. I doubt that skipper will get another job.

Yeh he's probably driving a truck now.

Reminded me of the Russian cruise ship that sank in the Marlborough sounds - but we won't mention that [emoji41]


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[LowRyter]

sunk ya

[oldbike54]

 Then we have Capt Joe Dedmon who piloted a tug boat pulling several barges up the Arkansas who crashed into the I 40 bridge over the river causing a 580 ft section of the bridge to collapse . Quiet Sunday morning until cars started plunging into the river . Ugly scene , with the added strangeness of a two time felon pretending to be an Army Capt taking control of the situation , even FBI agents on the scene were following his lead 

 Dusty

[Tom]

Someone has to provide leadership.     When there are multiple agencies involved, it can be "paralysis by analysis".

[johnr]

Then we have Capt Joe Dedmon who piloted a tug boat pulling several barges up the Arkansas who crashed into the I 40 bridge over the river causing a 580 ft section of the bridge to collapse . Quiet Sunday morning until cars started plunging into the river . Ugly scene , with the added strangeness of a two time felon pretending to be an Army Capt taking control of the situation , even FBI agents on the scene were following his lead 

 Dusty

That's extraordinary Dusty!  Did he do a good job? (and how was he caught?)

[Muzz]

The Rena, yes. I doubt that skipper will get another job.

Could also be the Mikhail Lermantov.

Although a Russian cruise ship I suspect it was the pilot at fault. There was alwayts the question as to why the captain backed off the ref so that it sank further away from the shore.

[KiwiKev]

Could also be the Mikhail Lermantov.

Although a Russian cruise ship I suspect it was the pilot at fault. There was alwayts the question as to why the captain backed off the ref so that it sank further away from the shore.

Shh Muzz, I said not to mention that because it was under control ? Of our pilot at the time .

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[oldbike54]

That's extraordinary Dusty!  Did he do a good job? (and how was he caught?)

 Accounts of the fake Army Captain's job performance vary John , he didn't do any harm by any reckoning . It was only after a couple of days that someone checked his credentials .

 Dusty

[wirespokes]

I didn't see in that article anything about 8000 sheep - it only mentioned livestock. Lucky it didn't sink or they'd be sheepless in Istanbul.

[Zoom Zoom]

I didn't see in that article anything about 8000 sheep - it only mentioned livestock. Lucky it didn't sink or they'd be sheepless in Istanbul.

That's funny!

Will this be starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks as well? Wait, the Serta sleep sheep can play a role in the movie.

John Henry

[KiwiKev]

Freighter Full of Sheep Accidentally Sinks Russian Spy Ship

Maybe one of the sheep was at the helm ??