About the same as a British Mk 24 Tigerfish torpedo.
Survived the attack on Pearl Harbour, then sunk by the BritishâŠ
R.S.S. My Other Boat is Also a Ship
Flotationally,
the OtherMichael
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RRS If You Think This Ship is Icy, You Should See My Wife?
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Isnât âMcâ more of an Irish surname?
Shouldnât it be Boaty MacBoatface of clan Boatface?
Yours until the icecaps melt,
the OtherMichael
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What was tragic about the Belgrano incident was that the British sub had a very old design of torpedo on board which meant that, though the captain probably meant only to try to disable the steering gear, he sank the ship. The failure to develop a modern, accurate torpedo was one of the scandals covered up by the government of the time; billions were wasted on poorly managed development.
But the answer to the other question is this; it was a d____d close run thing, as Wellington said of Waterloo. You donât have to take my word for it as an anonymous poster on the Internet, but I had it from a pretty good authority as I was working in military R&D at the time. The Falklands revealed major weaknesses in all three armed forces, and even bigger weaknesses in political leadership. The situation was retrieved mainly by older, more experienced soldiers and sailors.
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Good luck with hitting a helicopter with a torpedo. Also, this is a research vessel, and unless someone decides to try and economise by combining it with Trident, it lacks torpedo tubes.
200 MEGAPOUNDS Sterling?
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More like the NARC, amirite?
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Some of the runner-up names were better:
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RRS Boat Marley and the Whalers
RRS I Like Big Boats & I Cannot Lie
RRS Pee-Eee Cee Tee
RRS Motörboat
RRS Feed
RRS Icey Smashy-Smash
RRS Thanks for All the Fish
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Now this may be Oirish blarney because I had it of an IrishmanâŠ
Mc and Mac are both abbreviations of meic or maicc (son of) and occur equally in Scots and Irish - there is no distinction between them.
But Oâ is distinctively Irish - it means âdescendant ofâ, thus OâBradaigh is a descendant of Bradaigh, OâNeill is a descendant of Neill or Niall. Mc or Mac have lost their original connotations and now just form part of names which donât change from generation to generation.
Russian still preserves the ancient system (as does Icelandic) in which your second name is your fatherâs name with a suffix - hence Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin - but Irish and Scots have ceased to follow it.
In Yeatsâs Wandering of Oisin, none of the heroes have Oâ or Mc names because they are the original Fenians - people would claim to be their descendants - though Finn is usually referred to elsewhere as Fionn mac Cumhaill.
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Donât get yer Irish up! Iâll shape up, or ship out.
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Not forgetting RRS Putin, Russiaâs Greatest Love Machine
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Boaty McBoatface is a SHIP! The brits dont know a boat from a SHIP! At the very least it should have been Shippy McShipface ! Wanna do over ?
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Needs a âthe Thirdâ at the end.
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No, thatâs US-speak. A country that severed its connection with a monarchy but goes in for monarchical CEOs with monarchical titles. No British aristocrat would ever deign to have something as lowly as a number in his name.
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Somehow, âShippy McShipfaceâ manages to sound even stupider than the original suggestion. Fascinating.
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my history teacher got mad at me because I called all the French Louisâ only by the number. â14 built Versailles, 16 was guillotined in the revolutionâ
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Itâs like the old school trick question, âName 16 French kingsâ.
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In the UK we donât tend to name kids after their parents because how bloody self-obsessed are those people anyway?
Names might be re-used after a couple of generations, or as a middle name, but the idea of calling your kid âJoe Bloggs the secondâ is very, well, American.
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