Even the Titanic took nearly three years to build but that was too slow for Alf Young, it seems

In the Times today, Alf Young:

We used to build ships in four months. Now it takes nine years

What is he on about? The Titanic took nearly 3 years and clearly still wasn’t ready.

The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth took just over 6 years.

In the 60s, the Liner QE2 took over 2 years.

Those CalMac smaller ferries being built in Turkey are taking around 3 years.

Even a tenth century Viking long-ship took 6 months.

I can’t find anything substantial taking only 4 months.

What is he thinking of? Back in his youth……ah now……where was I?

15 thoughts on “Even the Titanic took nearly three years to build but that was too slow for Alf Young, it seems”

  1. He’s talking about WWII Liberty ships. A production line for cargo and transport ships during the dark days of the battle of the Atlantic. Typical unionist harking back to simpler times. Doubt a liberty ship would last a couple of years in the minch.

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    2. Were they the ones built more or less on the beam principle?

      Like a massive box girder with pointed ends and holes cut in the top for hatches to the holds but that weakened the deck structure and they had a habit of folding in rough weather.

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  3. he’s probably thinking of the American liberty ships that took around six weeks to build. But then, they were just an engine and a rudder with a steel basin built around them. They were expected to have a very short lifespan. What with U-boats and their torpedos and all that.

    Mibbe he thinks The Minch is hoachin wi U-boats?

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  4. The MV Glen Sannox was ordered in October 2015, had its first steel cut in February 2016, and was launched in November 2017. It might not have been the ferry CalMac thought it was getting but that is just over two years.

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  5. OMG will this never end.

    It’s a bloody constant with these Muppets.

    On the 20 October this same ‘Freelance writer’ wrote in the Times “Ferry fiasco is legacy of SNP-run state” so no bias there then from Alf (Garnett ? Ha Ha).

    You know the constant regurgitation of Ferries #BAD in Scotland as a story by the media does prove one thing.

    That is that they, the media, do not have a lot of topics to choose from which they can write negatively about in respect to the Scottish government , that is blatantly obvious if they, as a media, have to keep revisiting the same stories time and time again.

    That should be a positive but nope not with the UK media.

    They, as a media, only have different versions that they concoct in respect to #SNPBAD to try and destroy the SNP but actually mainly to stop support for Scottish independence from growing within Scotland.

    That is the beginning, middle and end of all of their political stories relating to Scotland , where their whole purpose in all that they say and write about is to try and keep a support for their UK within Scotland while also doing their bit to try and diminish support for independence here too.

    So when will we finally see some actual real journalists and reporters turn up to do the job that we expect them to do.

    As opposed to those who currently work in newspapers, via a majority, and who always write columns that only represent their own (biased and partisan) opinions and also those who work as so called news reporters on channels like the BBC, who also tend to give their personal opinions too upon political matters in Scotland. (way too often , so much so that many of us have detected a pattern in this unprofessional behaviour and also why it is, as a behaviour, one that they have chosen to adopt and one that is also deemed as being acceptable to their employers).

    Of course their employers are the real source of their political position, as in the one taken by those that they employ to write political articles in their newspapers and also pieces to camera on various TV News programmes.

    I can go into any pub and listen to various people’s ‘different’ opinions upon Politics but their opinion is just that, an opinion, and one that is based on what they believe to be true and factual , but not always, as an opinion, one that is necessarily true or factual.

    (And that is the exact same too for those who write articles aka ‘opinion pieces’ in newspapers as well and also those who give reports on TV news programmes).

    Opinions doth not maketh it 100% true or 100% factual.

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  6. several of the Liberty ships broke up and sank in storms… not exactly what is wanted for Scottish ferries working the western isles. Or maybe that is what numpties like Alf Young would accept as a suitable trade-off.

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  8. Even a tenth century Viking long-ship took 6 months.

    Yes, yes. (Or maybe, as it’s a nautical theme, I should say Aye Aye)

    But, back in the sixth century, they used to build them in four! 😁

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  9. He never was in favour of a Scottish Government. all of his articles had a hostile line to them regarding Holyrood/SNP, one of the damm them with faint praise brigade. Do not expect anything different from him. Read Johns articles about ferry services around the world, then you realise it is part of the concerted unionist effort to denigrate all things SNP.

    Ian MacPherson

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