Boo fucking hooo.
If Davie Shipyards had done a decent job on the Naval ships for the last 3 decades the work may have come their way.
From personnel experience Davie did things like screw up the FWD King Post so bad when they put in the missle fit that the Tribals actually had to go to a Sampson Post ala the 1950's in order to conduct heavy jackstays.
They also painted every compartment on the ship and didn't bother to use primer so on the way around, every lower deck space that got moist actually had all the paint lift.
And here's one for the ages. We were alongside in HFX and we had an alarm that indicated a fire in our Fwd magazine. Needless to say it was panic stations till one of the HT's went and opened the valve on the hatch. Lo and behold water started pissing out. Davie forgot to properly tighten and then test the fire main. Weeks of work wiping down every shell with fresh water drying it then reammunitioning combined with HFX shipyard taking all the fittings apart and replacing gaskets and flanges that should have been changed during the conversion but weren't.
I could talk about a dozen other problems with them, including the one where they held the ship hostage when they decided their bid was to low and they wanted more money before they finished the ship, but what's the point.
I guess somebody finally noticed the cost overruns, shoddy workmanship and political pandering that went on in the decades before and decided enough was enough.
Site Admin 
