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We had a head cook out here caught ordering T-bone steaks for the menu and serving Salisbury steaks instead.
Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread
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Oldgateboatdriver
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When I was at MONTCALM, in Quebec city, one of the unit's officer's civilian job was shipchandler for a local marine supplier. Those were the days before electronic transfers or other forms of direct payment. In the maritime world, ships (yes, even warships) carried large amounts of cash, usually US, to make their purchase abroad. He always had good stories, especially about how it was a cutthroat business and everybody was trying everything to gain an edge.
He was telling us how he was using his naval contacts, for instance, to get taken on the pilot boat at Les Escoumins, so he could close the sale s before the ship came alongside in Quebec city, thus beating the competition. He told tales of how he would have two different books of receipts, so he would "sell" $10,000 worth of food to the cook and First Mate (the usual holders of the purse) in their cabin, then issue a receipt for the full amount to them. He would then "re-count" the cash in font of them making three piles: $100 bucks would go in the payment pile, then $10 in the First Mate's pile, then $5 in the cooks pile and so on until all the cash was counted. He would then pocket the payment pile and, after getting back ashore, pay all the suppliers, make a second (official) receipt for his income tax purposes for the total payments made to the suppliers plus a "reasonable" commission for himself, and pocket whatever was left over himself.
Oh! One last thing: He was retired RCN Lieutenant.
He was telling us how he was using his naval contacts, for instance, to get taken on the pilot boat at Les Escoumins, so he could close the sale s before the ship came alongside in Quebec city, thus beating the competition. He told tales of how he would have two different books of receipts, so he would "sell" $10,000 worth of food to the cook and First Mate (the usual holders of the purse) in their cabin, then issue a receipt for the full amount to them. He would then "re-count" the cash in font of them making three piles: $100 bucks would go in the payment pile, then $10 in the First Mate's pile, then $5 in the cooks pile and so on until all the cash was counted. He would then pocket the payment pile and, after getting back ashore, pay all the suppliers, make a second (official) receipt for his income tax purposes for the total payments made to the suppliers plus a "reasonable" commission for himself, and pocket whatever was left over himself.
Oh! One last thing: He was retired RCN Lieutenant.
Halifax Tar
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We still carry vast amounts of cash. And in what ever local currencies we will be visiting. With a large sum of USD as well.
If this wasn't an open forum I would spin a dit about a former CRCN and his "diplomatic"
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Log operates the forklifts, Deck the cranes (with CSE also qualified). CSE responsible for ammo, MSE for fuel/water and Log is responsible for everything else. Log can store ship for an entire task group entirely without anyone else's help but Deck on the sideshell cranes, in a single (long) day. Only challenge may be packing the cages on the jetty to be better organized for RAS access.
I've seen the new cages. They are slick as hell and the Log and CSE Depts are very excited. Log for their stores and CSE for ammo transfer. Things will be much much easier with a standardized system.
There is no Liquid Cargo officer, only a Cargo Management Officer. And frankly there is discussion that the position should be a secondary duty for the AHOD (now DIV O) as its not a lot of work. Aussies CMO is a secondary duty usually for a PO. They don't bother with advanced stability traing at all. There isn't even a CMO course. NZ went the other way with an advance stability course. UK runs a CMO course.Anyway, the concerns Underway alludes to provide hours and hours of fun for the Cargo Officer and the Liquid Cargo Officer. At least, on the new ones, I assume they will have computer assistance instead of tables, graphs and calculation forms.
And yes we will have some pretty slick software. We have a wireless enabled digital scale attachment for the cranes that weighs everything you bring on board. That goes into the software and the position its placed on the ship. Which does all the work for you in about 5 seconds.
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My understanding is for the River Class the intent is to include 2 x mk38-mod-4 30mm guns aft, one port and one starboard.
I note the WarZone has a recent article with some images of the mk38-mod-4 gun on a different ship class (and another image here ) .
Also of interest is an image of the Mk48-mod-2 EOSS which typically goes with the Mk38-mod-4 gun where I speculate this may go with the River Class Mk38-Mod-4 gun (although that is my speculation) and possibly even be part of the River Class SPEIR as an NFOV component (again that is my speculation).
I note the WarZone has a recent article with some images of the mk38-mod-4 gun on a different ship class (and another image here ) .
Also of interest is an image of the Mk48-mod-2 EOSS which typically goes with the Mk38-mod-4 gun where I speculate this may go with the River Class Mk38-Mod-4 gun (although that is my speculation) and possibly even be part of the River Class SPEIR as an NFOV component (again that is my speculation).
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That's the version where they added a coaxial .50cal as well. Would certainly work for training. It reduces cable runs, but I am not sure how effective the .50cal will be, I not be surprised that the 30mm would shake the .50cal mount around and knock it off zero and do you want to be on the mount reloading either, when the other gun suddenly engages?
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The .50s get zeroed?
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Since your using some form of optical aiming device, one would assume you might want it to shoot somewhat close to where your crosshairs are.
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50 cals if that’s what you’re referring to- the venerable M2 - can be used as a sniper weapon provided the sniper knows how to snipe with it.
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All we use is the Mk1 eyeball and the same AA sight that was mounted on the Arizona's 50s at the time of Pearl Harbor.
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Actually no, you also have RWS on the Halifax's. Not sure how much zeroing you do on those? If you go back up, the link sends you to an image of a 30mm mount with a coaxial .50cal, which was what I was referring to in my post.
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Lol oh the RWS... Have fun with those.
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Yeah, I was talking with the guys in the weapons shop about them....I understand there are 'issues'.
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They were being... 'kind'. Lol
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Whats wrong with them in a naval context? Salt water corrosion? They work fine in land applications.
