HMS Hurworth and L.É. Samuel Beckett sailed together following a visit to Dublin by the British vessel.
HMS Hurworth is a Hunt-Class Mine Countermeasures Vessel – a minehunter where as the L.É. Samuel Beckett is an Offshore Patrol Vessel.
An absolute pleasure to work along side the @HMSHurworth this week! A great opportunity to increase our skills.@naval_service #BeMore pic.twitter.com/3ybk1ecWVU
— L.É. Samuel Beckett (@LESamBeck61) July 11, 2023
The official account for the UK Defence Attaché to Ireland tweeted too.
Great to see 🇮🇪 @naval_service LÉ Samuel Beckett & 🇬🇧 @RoyalNavy HMS Hurworth undertake a #PASSEX following HMS Hurworth visit to Dublin #MCM2 #SmallShipsBigImpact
👇 https://t.co/Be4ELXFb8X— UK Defence in Dublin (@UKDefenceDublin) July 11, 2023
Good job they put the bigger Irish Ship in the background.
Who is this prat?
Get back on your meds
Sad when the only warships built in Engand are for foreign navy’s including this one.
You’re way off Martyn. Every class of frontline Warship in the RN & most the supporting ones are UK built too. Of the 23+ escorts in the pipeline for the future every one will be UK built. We build most escorts in Scotland, many modules for the QE carriers were made in England & all our submarines are made in England at Barrow.
I said built in England not Scotland and ships not submarines.
Well as far as I know all 13 of the Hunt class MCM to which HMS Hurworth in the article belongs were built in England. I would like some of our escorts to be built in England rather than every one in Scotland, lest we lose the capacity & skills to do so, but I don’t resent Scotland doing it either. So long as we build decent escorts etc & rebuild the RN to a level where it both covers all our commitments & deters our enemies I’m happy.
Good post Frank. For me, as long as they are British built, all OK.
I guess SSN’s and SSBN’s don’t count for you?
SSN and SSBN are not ships
Coming in at 7,000t for SSN’s and 15-17,000t for SSBN’s I think the fact that there traditionally called boats is kind of academic.
Morning Mark. Hope you are well. Nice to see the big battle ensigns! Samuel Beckett is pleasing to the eye!
Cheers from Durban
Hi Geoff, they are good ships alright and well liked by the crews, only issue is the naming convention a previous minister went with, but sounds are that they will revert to tradition for the two NZ boats when they commission.
HMS Hurworth was built in England… Appledore is still around and 1/4 of the UK workforce for FSSS will be in Appledore. Cammell Laird is also still around and will most likely receive either MROSS 2 or MCM motherships, or both. The issue with yards in England is the space. Rosyth has lots of space, as does Belfast. CL is quite limited on space. Barrow is huge and is being expanded. Of course it’s a shame that BAE closed the Portsmouth yard but there’s no other way around it. BAE produces multiple different aircraft types in the UK with 3… Read more »
Why is it sad? England has 1 foreign owned steel mill at Port Talbot. In fact all UK military warships are made from Indian steel, namely Arcelor Mittal and Tata, with some speacilist steel from SSAB in Sweden. Ukraine was also a major supplier (Metinvest). People forget the yards in the UK are totally dependent on foreign steel. British Steel never made a profit in it’s existence. Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, US and Germany can produce enough steel to produce their own warships completely independent of foreign nations. The UK can’t, it simply does not have the steel producing… Read more »
I suspect the residents of Port Talbot might be a tad upset with you saying that they are in England. If you can get the right height for Salisbury Cathedral, you should be able to get the right place for an entire town. B Minus.
I find it amazing how a place as tiny as the UK, which in itself is smaller than most states in the US, has different languages and cultures in such a small area.
I am amazed that the USA is so big and has a large population but hae no official language of their own and has to rely on Spanish and English. Although I do believe Hawaii has it’s own nation language.
Post Brexit, the UK should realise it’s ultimate ambition, to become the 1st US state in Europe.
Just because we are Americas most powerful Ally militarily, doesn’t mean we will become a US state.
Oh dear, getting more and more immature, troll value increasing!
How’s that SMO going?
Funny how such a small country still has the best military record including post 1945 alone…
Yes, glad you are proud of Iraq. Go Blair!
Nobody mentioned Iraq…
Best military record since 1945? I take it Iraq, Northern Ireland, Suez, Sinking of the Belgrano, Afghanistan are not included?
Why would you even have sinking a hostile cruiser on the list of what I guess you are suggesting are military failures of the U.K.?
Not suggesting it was a failure (sinking Belgrano, I take that back) but I was responding to the statement that the UK has the finest military record since 1945, has it? The UK is a puppet for the US, who always get it wrong before they get it right. The UK have shown some great military leadership, I would say it’s handling of the Ukriane crisis has been impeccable, and has had massive global influence in helping sustain Ukraine in opposing Russia. Bit it must admit to it’s failings, and the Iraq war was recent history. WMD in a Iraq… Read more »
WMD in Iraq was a lie. Doesn’t change the fact that Britain has the finest military record post 1945.
Can you name a single country that’s better?
My reply to your other comment about steel has gone missing so I’ll just rewrite it here.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26-frigate-construction-use-65-foreign-steel/
Yorkshire also has multiple steel mills that produce for the RN.
Suez was a military success but a political failure. Proof we weren’t USA’s poodle until the USA said down boy!
Moscow or St Petersburg? Wondered where you live😉
Wow you really don’t like getting caught out waffling chuff do you! Straight to the anger chapter of caught out waffling troll!
Name one country with a better one then.
Suez was a military victory, not sure why Belgrano is on that list, Iraq wasn’t a failure militarily, Afghanistan again wasn’t really a British decision.
Gentlemen-long may the USA and UK be the best of friends and allies, and nice to see the British and Irish navies working together
Iraq where the Army smashed the Iraqi forces twice.
Northern Ireland where the the IRA insurgency was ended and is now a peacfull part of the United Kingdom.
The Falklands War (I notice how you don’t count the entire war… wonder why), where Britain unilaterally won a war half a globe away.
Suez, again a military victory that was undone by diplomatic and economic pressure.
Afghanistan where the Taliban never actually defeated the British Army, just the ANA?
I also notice you leave out the Malayan Emergency, Bosnia, Sierra Leone etc.
We often disagree buy I’m with you on every word of that post. The OP is confusing military and political failure.
Afghanistan was not a military failure? IED caused havoc, the British forces were poorly equiped at the start of the invasion.
Oh dear, more troll comments. Out of interest do state your country of origin as it would be nice to hear a troll give a location for us to chat and debate about. Don’t be scared.
I find it amazing you didn’t know Port Talbot was in Wales! I take it your not from the UK, but another of our resident anti UK lip flappers who hide their troll status behind a keyboard! Not sure if you pretended to be from the UK when you first arrived on this site, and got caught out! Let me peruse your previous posts and I will get back to you.
yes we would, please read the map in your offices properly comrade
No 50% of the value of steel for the Type 26 is British.
Impossible. The UK does not have enough steel producing capacity. Port Talbot produced coils, up to 10mm thick. Warships are made from plate, not decoil. The UK has no steel plate production on it’s shores, zero. It is all imported into Birkenhead at the Arcelor facility. I know, as I buy & sell steel for a global steel trader.
I don’t know whether you know this but Port Talbot isn’t the only steel mill in the UK.
Scunthorpe and steelworks in Scotland provide steel to RN.
British Steel in Scunthorpe produce section for rail and construction, they do not produce plate, which warships are made from, the plate is plasma/laser cut into shapes and formed at the shipyards. Scotland has no steel Mills. Nobody provides steel to the RN. Arcelor Mittal sell it to BAe, CL, etc, who then produce modular steel fabrications, which are assembled into warships and sold to the RN. In addition the UK has zero production capacity for speacilist steel that go into armored vehicles. It all comes from SSAB (Armox).
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26-frigate-construction-use-65-foreign-steel/
Sheffield also has multiple steel mills that produce steel for the RN.
The MOD also owns Sheffield Forgemasters
Yes, not a steel mill. A forge, machinist.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/type-26-frigate-construction-use-65-foreign-steel/
Half the steel value, 35% of the weight.
This is amazing, one moment you had no clue where Port Talbot was and now you’re an expert on UK manufacturing locations! I see a brief from your head shed in regard to research prior to trolling was issued!
Do you? That’s interesting, so which organisation do you work for and which passport do you hold? You do seem not to heave known Port Talbot was in Wales considering your a global steel trader!
Is the steel for the Admiral Kuznetsov still water permeable??
Unsure, I will ask later, the tug is OK though. But good job all the RAF F35s are at Marham, they can’t fall off a runway.
Well Russian naval aviation would be the experts in losing aircraft into the sea.
617 squadron actually deployed on QE today.
There isn’t a single carrier Navy that hasn’t had a crash.
O don’t agree with anything you’ve posted but I have to give you credit that that post was funny
To be honest, I thought the Irish had sent a Coracle…
Now now Tom!
Well I’m 99% Irish, so I wasn’t offended 😄
😉
Ireland should continue embracing it’s neutrality, rather than playing patsy with its former imperial master.
Oops, somebody definitely got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!
You do realise Irish and British forces have had working relationships since 1922 to one extent or another?