Indeed. Especially, since we had to cross the main and busy German Bight Way a couple of times with the sweeping equipment ...
And afterwards we (just our ship) had to lay the temporary boys for the buoy tender to lay the real ones - that was a real navigational challenge for me.
I noticed those differences during an exercise with the US ("boo-ee") and French (bouée ["bwe"]) navy.
In German, btw, temporary marker buoys are called "Boje", while the real sea marks are called "Tonne".
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Walter Hinteler
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Thu 4 Oct, 2018 09:22 am
I don't want to start a new thread, but my response is not only related to the topic here because a destroyer is involved:
This was not only a "near miss" but really a nearly (deadly) collision
That reminds me of several similar incidents I've participated in during the "real" cold war, the worst was when getting literally yards aside a GDR ship to read the number (name) in a foggy and rainy night, anchored exactly on the 3-mile-border. (Half of our crew got **** in the trousers and I earned a crate of beer.
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edgarblythe
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Thu 4 Oct, 2018 04:10 pm
I don't know how fast newer destroyers go. The one I served on went either 11 or 15 knots top speed, if my memory is correct.
We "raced" the Enterprise one day and it left us far behind right away.
Our Fltschers were know to race with our fast patrol boats. (And their crews were known to be ... Well, there was a reason why they were stationed at the farest end in the harbour, opposite all other navy ships and miles away from the canteen.)
This morning, in Øygarden Norway, a Norwegian frigate and a fuel tank have collided. Seven persons are injured, 10 crew stayed at first on the frigate, but are rescued by now. (Seems, the frigate - KNM Helge Ingstadt -is sinking.)
