Offshore Visit Today
- 5 November 2011 08:39135033That arrested fishing boat looks highly similar to the one arrested in 2007. Look at the pictures. Gadzooks could it be the very same one ?? I have a feeling its the same one. Maybe a naughty re-offender breaking EU regulations re our fishing stock.
Good picture again Ed..the newspapers might be after you for that one.
email: dover7@msn.com - 5 November 2011 09:04135036You can still get it up on your pc I am writing again tonight,we are up to 1961-1962 I would like to bring back to the Dover forum,.but been told in the pass that will not happen. But one day I hope to get it out to the open world by hard back.
- 5 November 2011 18:59135120Well spotted, Paul. The one arrested in 2007 was the Saint Jacques II. She and the Nicolas Jeremy are both Boulogne stern trawlers and do appear to be sister ships.
A Google shows that Saint Jacques II was also involved in a collision in the Dover Strait in 2001 whilst contravening the traffic regulations in the Southwest Lane.The MAIB report below shows that the coastguard tug Anglian Monarch , and the coastguard fixed wing aircraft, were both tasked to deal with this incident. Both have of course been cut by the present government and there are further massive cuts planned in the Coastguard service. All very shortsighted in my view
http://www.maib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cfm?file=/gudermes-saint-jacques.pdf - 6 November 2011 08:50135164Oh dear! arresting fishermen from Boulogne is not going to do much for the old Entante Cordiale. There is a healthy and large fishing fleet in Boulogne and a busy market for fish. The French eat a lot more of it.. particularly popular are those Moules Mariner. Everyone is eating those en bulk. Not quite my cup of tea but what would I know!! But generally the fish market seems much bigger over there so perhaps fishermen are a tad more desperate to get their catch and are therefore tempted to break the rules. Somebody reported something in this case I suspect, as HMS Severn was prowling about for a couple of days on the lookout.
Yes the fishing boats are near identical and bigger than they look at first glance. Compare the latest one with the cars in Eds picture and you get the drift.
Yes always a bit gutting, no pun intended following all that talk of fish, to hear of cuts to the Coastguard services. Its perilous enough on the sea as it is without leaving those out there unprotected.email: dover7@msn.com - Brian Dixon
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6 November 2011 10:06135175paulb,there is all so a big fish market in ostend well worth visiting. - 21 November 2011 18:23138209The warship in PaulB's photo in post #7 above is the German Sachsen Class frigate FGS "Hessen".
I meant to look her up myself but have actually received this information from a rather surprising source who has read this
thread on the forum but has asked not to be identified!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen_class_frigate - 22 November 2011 12:40138384Thanks Ed, interesting stuff as ever. That ship looks like the 'state of the art' to my untrained eye. I wonder what that black panel is towards the rear of centre..early warning detection perhaps...email: dover7@msn.com
- 22 November 2011 15:16138401That is the SMART-L long range surveillance radar used for detecting aircraft and missiles out to potentially 480km if they are at high altitude.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART-L
The same long range surveillance radar is used on the Royal Navy Type 45 Daring Class destroyers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_45_destroyer
However, it is merely an adjunct to the all-singing all-dancing SAMPSON multi-function radar which can track hundreds of targets simultaneously from close-in to 400km out and direct the ships missiles and guns to combat them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMPSON - 22 November 2011 15:53138413Mr Connell now put up the ones the Royal navy have they are the best in the world even the USA do not have them, Iam talking about the HMS Daring and its sister ship HMS Dauntless. The Daring is now in service and its Captain is Paddy McAlpine there is going to be six of them in totel.At this time I am reading the Desider it is the magazine for defence equipment and support,I was visting a factory somtime ago and picked it up.
- 22 November 2011 16:27138424Vic, the two pictures immediately above your post are of the Daring Class destroyers, perhaps I did not make that clear.
See the links above for further info. - 22 November 2011 16:35138426Yes sorry about that,I am always in a rush and miss that,but it is true that no other navy in the world have war ships like we have,I am reading that they are 50years ahead of anything the USA have in that class.And build and develop by 4,000 workers at the Clyde and Portsmouth shipyards and on top of that many more at suppliers across the UK, .
