This article written shortly after the Helge Ingstad accident raise the question: [image] Why do peacetime naval accidents keep happening? 2017 was an especially bad year for fatal naval accidents. Then last week the Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad collided with an oil tanker and is …

[image] Jughead: Naval ships can have quite a lot of people on the bridge and one of the reasons is that warships have quite a lot of people. It depends on the captain as to how many he can stand or how many he wants. [IMG_4382] The Zr.Ms. Zeeland (P841) is the second ship of the Holland cla…

[image] Dutchie: the guy in the back with crossed arms talking to the female watch officer. Turned back to the sea, chatting up the watch officer? I’d give him 5 seconds to get off the bridge.

I think was some may not understand is that Naval Vessels have to practice their Nav team in restricted waters. While 2 min fixtures and reports to Conn seem silly to most merchant guys and to every pilot, what they are practicing for is a need to enter a hostile area, where they have never been be…

[image] Kennebec_Captain: Turned back to the sea, chatting up the watch officer That was the reporter interviewing the watch officer. As long as there was no traffic close by probably no too bad. Likey the whole purpose of allowing the reporter aboard was to get good PR.

While you’re at it, read about Norway’s recent Navy ship grounding and sinking of the HELGE INGSTAD. While operating in her own coastal waters, within a VTS area, she had a collision with a tanker that had just gotten underway from a dock, at night. The Norwegian Navy ship had erratic VHF comms wit…

[image] Pilot16: While you’re at it, read about Norway’s recent Navy ship grounding and sinking of the HELGE INGSTAD. You must be new here. :wink: [image] Tanker Sola and Norwegian navy frigate Helga Ingstad collide off Norway Professional Mariner Forum Another ste…

My experience mirrors Jughead’s. The nearest we had to the USN position of Quartermaster was the navigators yeoman, a radar plot rating, who had received additional training in chart correction and the care of chronometers. As a very junior officer my first command was a patrol craft with a crew of…

I can certainly see the merchant marine influence on that bridge layout. I’ve never served on a naval bridge with such space and with so many computer screens. Missing is the central feature of every bridge I served on … a centreline pelorus from which the OOW observed bearings of everything he co…

I read the thread here and commented at the time and, as I recall, my speculation as to what happened has largely been verified.

Yes, my first command was a patrol boat. Great fun! And my pilot through the Suez was more interested in what might be his ‘gift’ when he was ready to inspect it and getting himself and his family to Australia … apparently I could authorise his citizenship. He’d never been to sea.

Why do naval vessels suffer accidents?

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