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old seafarer. views are my own.

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@JBarugh7158 @JustSaints_ Are boro still in training ? Just in case …..

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@LukePollard Isn’t it about time you invested in the people of the RFA ?

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@Benny489 @TheAngry53586 I was being very conservative with the figures 🤣🤣

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@pegge49 @TomSharpe134 Being on a ship that’s being deliberately run aground is a strange feeling . Did it on Sir Percivale on the beach at La Rochelle. Nearly got stuck there #fullasternnow

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@BartGonnissen Yet still they do nothing about it. It’s a done deal. Putting it all out to tender. Look up inochea and wave class

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@YourAnonNews Are they going to be armed too ?

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@TomSharpe134 @pegge49 RFA and uk merchant deck officers probably do have better history of not breaking ships than RN drivers . Although there was an RFA PWO who was on Nottingham when she had her little bump. He vehemently denies any involvement and says he was off watch when it happened 🫣🫣

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@hthjones @TomSharpe134 Unless you’re trying to sleep when they’re driving it like they stole it or you’re in a condemned cabin.

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@IntercityFC @TomSharpe134 😮😮😮

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@TomSharpe134 Suffice to say the chief and second engineer were not the biggest fans of Mr Andy Meerza after having to change all the cylinder heads.

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@TomSharpe134 Has an ex RN submariner who thought that after he’d left the mob , got his c of c , joined RFA. Let loose on a leaf boat . After drifting about in the goo , we were tasked so he upped revs like he was driving a frigate rather than a tired old leaf boat. Blew seven heads in one go

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@MichaelTEdgar @mercoglianos 9 ???? Loving your optimism …..

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Labor Problems Grow at Royal Fleet Auxiliary as Officers Set 24-Hour Strike

https://t.co/rrJr8zE4nf #maritime #maritime-news

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@philchadwick64 @nicholadrummond That’s well under way. No one will do it cheaper than RFA as they don’t have share holders or profit margins.

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@TanDhesi Yet nothing for RFA seafarers, fundamental to keeping RN ships at sea. Key to assisting in the opening of the straights of Hormuz. Yet brushed aside as irrelevant.

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@philchadwick64 @nicholadrummond If that contractor offers better terms and conditions currently on offer to RFA seafarers, they’ll leave in droves . Flog off the tides to said contractor. RFA dies and HMG gets the service it requires at a greatly reduced price ? Said no one ever.
Cost of payrise v outsourcing

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@TanDhesi Yet it has failed to address the problems of RFA terms and conditions. Ongoing for years now hence laying up of ships, selling of ships and many experienced seafarers biting with their feet.

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@philchadwick64 @nicholadrummond Nope , we’ll charter in two wave class we have just offloaded for peanuts and pay a contractor to operate because it makes perfect financial sense. Rather than paying employees enough to keep them will restrain their terms and conditions so badly they take their experience and go