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Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol
« on: 21 February 2011, 22:17:50 »

Just been watching this on C5, it does not inspire any confidence in the modern Royal Navy!

For those that did not see it, a British Destroyer HMS Manchester (Type 42), came across a 'Go-Fast' which was abandoned. 

Essentially they are fibre glass boats, with big engines for drug running.

It was decided that this boat posed a 'major' hazard to international shipping, not sure why it was a boat about 12/15 feet long. Any tanker would have just ploughed through it.

So the Captain ordered it to be Sunk.

The Destroyer:



The Go-Fast (not exact but about this size)




They let the 'Big Gun' blast about 15 rounds at it, its a 4.5 inch gun, 55-calibre. 15 rounds, about a foot long, failed to sink it  :-?

So they sent out a Helicopter, with a heavy machine gun, and a feking big sniper rifle. That failed to sink it.  :-?

So the Destroyer moved in closer, and let rip the gating gun type thing, again that failed to destroy it.  :-?

In the end, they had get a saw out, cut through it, fill it with petrol, set it alight and capsize it  :o

When they did finally catch a drug running boat (a wooden fishing boat capable of 4 knots) it had to escort it back to Colombia (250 miles away) which took 4 days!

No wonder drug running is a big business, its almost impossible to get sunk, and if your caught your chauffeured home  ::)  ;D


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Re: Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol
« Reply #1 on: 21 February 2011, 23:03:03 »

I also watched it I was suprised when it was stated that about 10 kilos of cocaine out of a total haul of 40 kilo was to be handed over to the Columbian coastguard as a "sample" for evidence ::). Hmmm I wonder how much of that will go missing on route to the courts? ::)
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« Reply #2 on: 21 February 2011, 23:10:57 »

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I also watched it I was suprised when it was stated that about 10 kilos of cocaine was to be handed over to the Columbian coastguard as evidence. Hmmm I wonder how much of that will go missing on route to the courts? ::)

that makes serious money.. ::)
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Re: Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol
« Reply #3 on: 21 February 2011, 23:24:07 »

Does this not suggest we are using the wrong sort of equipment, the proverbial sledge hammer to crack a nut. We should have a fleet of small but agile fast patrol boats to hunt these down, and a larger ship to dock and supply them while on long journeys. Also choose more appropriate weapons, like flame throwers. :y

I didn't see it, but it sounds like the Captain should check his gunnery crew's eyesight. Come on, a 4.5" gun and gatling gun should have turned it into small pieces very quickly.

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