| The submarine officers
who breenged the "HMS Trafalgar" into a small island off Skye last year have
received a reprimand. The court martial heard that the officers, conducting a training
exercise, failed to notice that the island, "Fladda-Chuain", was stealthily
moving up on the sub’s pointy bit. A Royal Navy spokesreadyrubbed told The JT:
"A general advice note will go out to all submarine officers, reminding them of
the hidden menace that ambulatory submerged land masses pose for multi-million pound
wastes of other people’s money." |
Lawyers for the scraped
land-mass are to pursue a civil action against the Ministry of Defence arguing that the
island had clear right of way and had looked both ways before embarking on a sea-bed walk
about. As is the way these things, the "HMS Trafalgar" smash was the third
such accident involving subs, with "HMS Triumph" and "HMS Tireless"
also being involved recently in fierce hand-to-hand fighting with submerged land masses.
The navigationally related cock ups are not thought likely to delay the launch next year
of a fourth "T" class boat - "HMS Totally Pointless Exercise In
Post-Imperial Posturing." |
