My Bloody Efforts My Bloody Efforts

My Bloody Efforts

Life As a Rating In the Modern Royal Navy

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In May 2000 the British nuclear hunter-killer submarine HMS Tireless limped into
Gibraltar using emergency propulsion and with her nuclear reactor shut down. Days
earlier, while traversing the Straits of Sicily the crew had discovered a crack in one of
the nuclear reactor pipes, requiring the immediate shutting down of the reactor to
prevent a potential reactor accident, an operation never before conducted on a British
submarine at sea.


The previous six days had been a difficult time for the crew of the submarine. Initial
indications of a nuclear reactor defect had quickly escalated into a full scale potential nuclear
reactor accident at sea, requiring decisive action by the crew to make the reactor safe, to
identify the defect and attempt to repair the reactor, and then to surface the submarine and
to sail her safely back to the nearest safe harbor using emergency propulsion machinery
designed for very limited use. The resulting lack of electrical power resulted in the crew
having to sacrifice lighting, air-conditioning, bathing facilities and even hot food until their
return to harbor, and to suffer in the excessively hot interior of the boat. Throughout,
there remained the fear of exposure to deadly radiation and the uncertainty that the reactor
might still be one step away from a major accident.


For one man onboard, this episode formed the culmination of a 25 year naval
engineering career almost fated for this moment. Charge Chief Stephen Bridgman,
the senior nuclear propulsion technician, had needed all of his engineering knowledge
and experience in the identification and eventual repair of the submarine reactor,
subsequently being awarded an MBE together with a colleague for his services to naval
engineering for his actions.


This book provides an insight into a remarkable naval career starting as a 16 year old
Stoker on the final proper British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in 1977, through
the Falklands War, being selected for naval technician training and submarine service,
submarine training, submarine patrols in the supposed post cold-war period, the
Kosovo conflict, progression through the ranks, submarine refi t and refueling through
to the nuclear reactor accident onboard HMS Tireless.


While there are countless accounts of naval life during wartime, this book tells the
unique story of life as a British naval rating in the modern era, starting from the lowest
level at a time of decline for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s, and paralleling the major
political and military events of the 1980s and 1990s.

ジャンル
伝記/自叙伝
発売日
2012年
9月17日
言語
EN
英語
ページ数
676
ページ
発行者
AuthorHouse UK
販売元
AuthorHouse
サイズ
1.2
MB

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