Thanks to Cap’n Dottie for alerting me to this:
The MOD has said there 34 serving Admirals, Vice Admirals and Rear Admirals and 75 ships – but only 19 of these are operational warships.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/royal-navy-now-more-admirals-2605063
From Navy Lookout, yesterday:
Makes you wonder how Scotland might survive without the Royal Navy, don’t it, Master Bates?
Footnote: from 10-14, I obsessively built Airfix models and to this day could recognise in silhouette, the Hood, the Prince of Wales and the Bismarck. What more does the Director of Submarines need?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
If and when the Russians or the Chinese pop up and sink one of the British aeroplane ferries that we were forced to pay for I hope the news is met in Scotland with a collective shrug of the shoulders.
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“Ahh, Captain, and you are”?
“Pugwash, me fine sirs,. Cap’n Pugwash wiv years ‘n’years afore the mast. If’n oi gits this ere job, oi wants me own crew, so oi does”
“Well, Cap’n as no one else applied, the job is yours. Who is this crew you wish”?
“First up, Roger the cabin boy, oi could not go to sea with out this fine boy, who has been of service to the Tory oiks oi un’erstands.
Then Seaman Staines–no sailor finer when fings gits salty.
And to take things in hand, oi needs Master Bates.
And none o’ yer modern junks, oi wants me Black Pig back in commission”.
“All granted, Cap’n” Demmed Ruskies will be quaking”!
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Might I suggest Lt. Andrew Bowie ( failed ) as the obvious candidate for what appears to be a pantomime post in a Ruritanian farce .
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Alas while the recipient would not go to sea ( Bowie gets seasick in his bath) you also are required to “hold your gin”, and Bowie is a lightweight in this area.
I would suggest Master Mundell, who now looks like the picture on the old Capstan cigarette packet, and he is as out of touch as a submariner who has spent 6 months under water.
Yup, Submarine Admiral Mundell—-Dive, Dive, Dive. Going down!
Gavinochiltree.
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Sub-Lt
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Shortage of military. Personnel. Lack of recruits. Less joining up. Generation Z. Military cost £40Billion+ nuclear. Decommissioning cost £13Billion for 10 years. £130Billion. The waste Increasing all the time. Even more waste.
Admirals will retire. 2 vessels each. Overstaffed. Illegal wars. Redundant weaponry. and waste. Not enough reserves. Less joining up.
Scotland lacking an navy to patrol the shores. Faslane wasted on nuclear waste. £Billions spent on decommissioning nuclear and attempted clean up. Better spent on a Navy to patrol the shores. Faslane as a naval base. Not nuclear waste. Make the world a better place.
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Maybe they could get them from Rwanda.
I hear that they might soon have people to spare.
Or,they could do a Putin and offer Anglo citizen ship to anyone joining up.
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The Tories abandoning the sinking ship.
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Who remembers this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67675005
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met his Turkish counterpart as he continued a challenging Middle East tour aimed at easing regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
I was wondering if Cameron was going to sanction Blinkin.
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Yet again Westminster. Gets it completely WRONG
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Must be some Russian ‘rear admirals’ willing to do the job, no? What a farce the ‘UK’ English defences are.
O/T re floods in Germany, watched article about it, they have lots of help from France et al, part of the EU aggreement being in the club advantage.
England, left to their own devices and Sunak didn’t even go visit badly flooded areas, I guess he was too busy having a dip in his heated by using the public purse swimming pool.
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my experience of the RN was, that it was like a floating version of the old TV Drama, Upstairs Downstairs.
In peacetime the Navy has 2 roles,
1. prepare for war, exercise, train, drill and practice all sorts of warlike stuff.
2. showing the flag, when in a foreign port, a diplomatic exercise schmoozing dignitaries and entertaining them onboard at cocktail parties and the like.
It didn’t matter how good you were at the No1, if you didn’t have the background to carry out No2 then you would never be an RN Officer.
So the Officer Class were your Upper Class twits so brilliantly portrayed on It Aint Half Hot Mum.
The lower deck were working class lads from all over the UK.
and in between were the Senior Ratings, who kept the underlings hard at it, cleaning, polishing, scrubbing and all the other menial tasks required to keep the ship clean and tidy, and fit for carrying out Duty No2.
I lasted 6 years but would have left after 4 if I could.
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The Navy has a higher proportion of officers commissioned from the ranks than either the Army of RAF. THE “knife, fork and spoon” course addresses the subject of social niceties, protocol and etiquette
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