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Title: Damage to HMCS Iroquois will restrict future missions
Category: Military
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2014-04-15 07:31:21
Canadian

[saturn_656]

The article is about two weeks old, but I missed it and think it is still postworthy, despite the photographic screwups.

[martin14]

$1:

Specifically, the Iroquois will be unable to navigate waters when the waves are particularly heavy.

Well, we are ready to fight, just gotta wait for the weather. Another 6 months til July should do it.

Jesus

[BartSimpson]

Maybe the RCN can buy a couple of Alaskan fishing boats and mount some guns on them and paint them haze gray. At least you'd have something.

[bootlegga]

Given that these are near retirement age, it shouldn't really come as much of a surprise, but it would be nice if the government could get off its ass and get some replacement hulls laid down already.

[desertdude]

Isn't Iroquois the actual name for the UH-1 ?

[saturn_656]

The first HMCS Iroquois was commissioned in 1942 (I believe there was also a HMS Iroquois prior to that). The Americans didn't give the UH-1 the name until 1960.

[desertdude]

Must be running out of names then. Maybe a Future HMCS Apache or HMCS Sea King

[saturn_656]

It isn't uncommon for warship names to be "recycled".

Most of the warships in the RCN today aren't the first to bear their names and have predecessors in the RCN or RN.

[Freakinoldguy]

And then there was none

They may as well just put them all in black squadron and use the crews to fix the manning issues on the CPF's because the 280's are long past their due date and when you think about it were pretty much at that point when they converted them in the early 90's.

[Jabberwalker]

Poor old Iroquois ... first, Protecteur, then Iroquois ... I knew them when they still had "new car" smell.

[bootlegga]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

It isn't uncommon for warship names to be "recycled".

Most of the warships in the RCN today aren't the first to bear their names and have predecessors in the RCN or RN.

Yep - look at the USN - how many ships have been called Enterprise?

[DrCaleb]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Poor old Iroquois ... first, Protecteur, then Iroquois ... I knew them when they still had "new car" smell.

First was Huron.

I have a top to bottom video tour of 282 from 1991. I keep forgetting to digitize and post it.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Poor old Iroquois ... first, Protecteur, then Iroquois ... I knew them when they still had "new car" smell.

Poor old my ass, the only thing that made them advanced was the propulsion system, the rest of the ship was pretty much a cluster of bad ideas and unworkable design.

Give me a steamer any day. More stable and comfortable to ride in and alot less work to maintain.

[saturn_656]

bootlegga bootlegga:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

It isn't uncommon for warship names to be "recycled".

Most of the warships in the RCN today aren't the first to bear their names and have predecessors in the RCN or RN.

Yep - look at the USN - how many ships have been called Enterprise?

Between the Americans and the Brits there have been probably 18 plus ships named Enterprise (or Enterprize).

The Brits however haven't used the name on a proper warship since the WWII, they've conceded the name to the Americans I guess.