Lisbon to Aarhus - At Sea |
Apr 17 - May 10
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This is a Tall Ship we saw off the coast of Norway |
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Here are a few photos of the submarines we
worked with during our Exercise Blue Game, which took place in the
Skatterak, Kattegat. Three of the photos are of a Norwegian Uredd, and
below left is a picture of a German Type 206. The 206 surfaced about a
mile from our ship, which caused some commotion, as they were playing on
the "other" side. As it turned out, we exchanged ice cream,
fresh fruit, and milk for some German libations. They only had 2 cubic
metres of fresh water on board, for 29 men for a three week deployment.
They were quite appreciative of the trade
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   Here are a few photos of the Dutch Sail Past on the Van Speijk |
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| On our trip back from Mildon Hall England, a piece of one of the rotor blades tore. It's not a serious problem, actually we didn't even notice it had happened, until one of the technicians pointed it out after we stopped the rotors on the flight deck after the trip. Nevertheless, it called for a blade change. Coincidentally, this blade change took place exactly one year to the day after our blade change on NATO 2000! | |
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Last Thursday we did a Live Torpedo Load. We
can do either a practice run with a dummy round, but this time, we loaded
a live warshot onto the helo. It's good practice for the techs because
there are a few things they can't do with the dummy round. Here are a few
photos taken by our new token and self designated photo technician - Pat
Usherwood
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  The Spanish Seahawk (Toro), and the Portugeuse Lynx (Hagar) on our flight deck |
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The boys test out the assembly of the helicopter landing cradles. If we discover we have a landing gear problem and there aren't any alternative landing sites, then the techs will assemble the cradles, and we will land in them instead of landing on the landing gear |
| These are a couple of pictures from the Battle of the Atlantic Ceremony, and a burial at sea, both of which took place in the North Sea |   |
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This is the mine detonation demonstration that was given to us off the coast of Denmark. It was a fairly small mine, and we were 1/2 a mile away, but it still send vibrations throughout the ship! |
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Ok, ok you got me, this isn't the brig... it's actually the helicopter
refuelling compartment on the flight deck. When we land on, the techs pull
the refueling hose out from the compartment, and they can fuel the helo.
Below is a night refuelling. We are also capable of refueling in flight |
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