Topic: British Empire admits its nuclear submarine stands little chance of finding anything.. HMS Tireless
+Anonymous A — 12.4 years ago #34,057
Royal Navy submarine HMS Tireless has arrived in the southern Indian Ocean to help in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.Tireless had been scheduled to be decommissioned in 2013 To be replaced with a submarine with tires.
2013 Coolant leak
In early 2013 Tireless experienced a "small coolant leak that was contained within the sealed reactor compartment
Collision with iceberg
On 13 May 2003, while on exercise in the Arctic and travelling at a depth of 60 metres, Tireless collided with an iceberg.
Primary coolant leak
In May 2000, Tireless developed a serious leak in the nuclear reactor primary cooling circuit
March 2007 explosion
In 2007 Tireless ventured to the North Pole with USS Alexandria to participate in the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLIS).
On 21 March, two Tireless crew members, Leading Operator Mechanic Paul McCann and Operator Maintainer (Weapons Submariner) 2 Anthony Huntrod, were killed in an explosion on board, apparently caused by an oxygen generator candle in the forward section of the submarine.
+Anonymous B — 12.4 years ago, 1 hour later[T] [B] #390,553
So how many submarines have you been in, syntax?
+Anonymous C — 12.4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #390,555
Syntax has a hardon for anything related to the British military.
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