HMAS Adelaide disabled on relief mission.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-...cano/100793112

[Malcolm G]

“total power failure", including the backup power.
I expect that there is much jostling for the best sleeping position on deck…

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Report ALLEGEDLY leaked from someone on board:

'.... foundering [sic] with no power, now under tow to Fiji after being sent to Tonga as part of the aid package.

Again allegedly, now have no cold stored food available from the refrigerators, from Wednesday they’ll have no frozen food and with 700 people aboard they currently have 1200 ration packs, no fresh running water, and all people not required inside the ship are being held topside because there is no aircon. '

There are already questions being raised on TV News by supposed experts as to the 'redundancy and battleworthiness' of HMASs Adelaide and Canberra.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Much of the above has been rebutted by the Department of Defence.

https://news.defence.gov.au/media/on...aide-statement

Presumably the truth is somewhere in the middle ????

[R58484957]

Perhaps they should have had British engineers on board.

[Engine Serang]

Transfer the lads from the Type 45's.

[Tmac1720]

Lots of Harland and Bluff guys at a loose end right now, you bend it we mend it.

[Engine Serang]

I'm dispatching Mr V. Its probably a fuse.

[Varley]

I am happy to go, I have a modest but tasteful collection of fuse-wire in different gauges and colours, but she is a warship and I doubt my security clearance will hold good for SEATO just because I clip it on upside down.

[Varley]

There can be no real redundancy with only one main bus. You can tie it how you like but unlike shoe laces one undoing and one can be undone.

I do admire the priorities for 'backup power' when, we understand her stopped, she still has AC and the provision fridges. All I could manage on Nordic Crusader/Cast Fulmar was the bar fridge (not that the emergency supply was needed all that often).

[Engine Serang]

And these are the guys who want to run a nuclear submarine.

Not sure what the problem is, electrical or mechanical perhaps fuel problems.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Sad isn't it.
Maybe she was cheap but, regardless, we do have a history of buying lemons.
Send a Collins U-boat and run a jumper lead.

[Engine Serang]

I can well imagine the MEO and his merry men working their knackers off to get the show back up and running whilst Command are sending signals back to HQ ensuring no blame falls on them.
It must be a "Ripper" of a problem if it can't be resolved, or partly resolved in 3 or 4 days. There are no reports of fire or flooding but it must be something common to the GT and the 2 DG.
Perhaps the Tongans can paddle out in their outrigger canoe's and tow HMAS Adelaide alongside and get a shore power cable or portable generator to assist. We will watch this space with interest. YM is now our best friend.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

My steam tug is enroute to claim salvage.

She is towing a barge loaded with a heap of solar panels, some of those windmill thingys, a diesel electric locomotive and a heap of stolen copper cable.

I believe that when Adelaide is abandoned that her crew will be taken off in a 747 which is currently circling ready to land on as soon as the bronzing birds and boys clear the deck.

[Varley]

It will be interesting to hear the outcome (should it made public). I might put a ten bob note on silicon as the common link. With two completely separate electric buses and two azimuthing thrusters there will still be that adolescent urge to connect it all up to a computer.

Meantime I will continue to offer assistance from my arm-chair.

[Engine Serang]

A computer! thank God. I thought you were discussing breast implants.

Two azipods and a thruster is just demanding an element of DP and tug negative berthing but Bridge management on a warship is a lot different to a ro-ro ferry of equivalent dimensions.

[170 Driver]

Originally Posted by YM-Mundrabilla

Sad isn't it.
Maybe she was cheap but, regardless, we do have a history of buying lemons.
Send a Collins U-boat and run a jumper lead.

At least it made it out of port.
Its more than those subs we flogged to the Canadians managed.

[BobClay]

I see, I see, when in doubt ... blame the computer. Just because it developed a minor fault and started calling everybody: 'Dave.'

[Engine Serang]

Its running on DOS or Vista and has the power of a ZX Spectrum.
Every morning I wake up I curse Mr Allen-Bradley and all his infernal gadgets. I miss makers men with overalls and a toolbox and a couple of spare filters in the boot of the car. Instead I have a stream of boffiny sh1ts with wispy goatees and a laptop slung over their shoulder come to re-programme a PLC and charge me 1000 Euros. I could link out the interlocks for the price of a pint.

[Dartskipper]

Not exactly the most impressive warship ever built. Looks like a floating dock with a couple of bow doors from a landing craft in the scrapyard.

And before any antipodean friends start casting nasturtiums about my critique, I have a fair quantity of Aussie red stuff being pumped around by my cardiovascular equipment, so feel qualified to comment thus.

[BobClay]

Ahhhh ES, we're not going to the stars with a f****** shifter and a big hammer.

Having said that, I'll give you this: we're not going to the stars anyway, we don't have the right to f*** up another place like we have our own nest.

[Engine Serang]

YM's tug is the Adelaide's last chance, his railway signal friends are well used to fiddly electronics and a big square boat hold no fears for them. Could there be leaves on the line?

Seconds Ticket, dead ship. Start emergency compressor and press up start air bottles. Drain all water from daily service tank. Bleed fuel system to engine fuel pumps. 3/e and Lecky (Chief Artificer and WEO) to check out em generator and GT/DG control systems. Dip sumps etc and away we go. Power to galley, hvac and bar fridges.

Admiral Mundrabilla has a certain ring to it. Don't you agree?

[Malcolm G]

Just a minute, ships might have feelings you know.
Maybe when it got there, heard about a Big Bang, mention of megatons, scenes like a war zone….
The ship thought, “Sod this, I wasn’t expecting to have to actually to to war” and has just gone off into a gig sulk.
Take her home to Mummy, she’ll be fine.

[Engine Serang]

Big Bang, mention of megatons, scenes like a war zone… All true but more damp than the average war zone.

We are all familiar (except YM) with the saying, "Custodiet ipsos custodes" but what is the Latin for," Who are the First Responders for the First Responder".

[Varley]

Already I told you. The bar fridge is sorted!