Backstay ⛵⚓

Ship Faced Aquaholic, Chartered Engineer, sleep specialist 💤🛌 & STEM ambassador. Now working in the dark arts (safety management)
Views expressed are my own

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@XVPTBK stretching her legs this evening. Nice evening for it...
@NavyLookout

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Please play to your kids, and those so wrapped up in bashing Britain they can’t see the wood for the trees 🇬🇧

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@the_mantress @TomLeachPhotos @HmsBrocklesby Back in the good old days perhaps. As you know, it's been a while since Hunts could sweep (as I did as an OUT).

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@DrChrisParry Already used https://t.co/Wp62sl8eTm

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@the_mantress @HMSStAlbans @RoyalNavy @HMNBDevonport @FOST I hope you mean 'Gorgeous' in name only 😉😂

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Food security is national security.

Cutting food production and importing it from abroad makes us poorer and weaker. 🇬🇧

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@NavyLookout "unfunded aspiration" - a favourite in NCHQ 😉

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@SteveReedMP More 'useful' advice for you @Iromg

[GB News @GBNEWS]

BREAKING: Britain's armed forces set for inflation-busting pay rise in major military boost

https://t.co/loQgKfQdlD

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@mush1988 @FennellJW #SafeToSail 😉

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@FennellJW Usually, yes. But this is DRNG. Watch for movements, I think you're in for a long wait...

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

The Royal Navy officer running Project Beehive will tell you he doesn't know where autonomous surface warfare is heading, that this uncertainty is itself the strategy, and that we are living through another Dreadnought moment. Click image for more.
https://t.co/ax2TuX02st

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@NavyLookout @HMSDuncan Isn't Ex DYNAMIC MONGOOSE an ASW exercise? Why send a T45? Not exactly a platform optimised for that environment!

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@Knocker07047718 @ShippingButters @AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy Therefore, the correct courtesy flag for a warship should be the White Ensign. A Union Flag should never be used as a courtesy flag as it is a protected flag for use at sea by the Royal Navy only
https://t.co/oAwEllk14b

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@Knocker07047718 @ShippingButters @AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker @HMNBPortsmouth @RoyalNavy Art 9145b, "Foreign Warships. The custom for foreign warships visiting the United Kingdom, if they wish to fly a courtesy flag, is to fly the flag that they would fly if they were in the service of the United Kingdom.

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@smrmoorhouse Bit of an old MCM image, a PAP with an MDC... Isn't Seafox used now?
@RN_MTXG

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@pegge49 "The RN has a stated requirement for at least 3 new-build motherships or Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) to support the transition to uncrewed minehunting"
https://t.co/LyHjS1wGcb

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@pegge49 "The RN has a stated requirement for at least 3 new-build motherships or Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) to support the transition to uncrewed minehunting"
https://t.co/LyHjS1wGcb

[Backstay ⛵⚓ @wrightdi]

@TheStoicSailor See https://t.co/eqjTtcW6NL
#BRd10 #SEMS 😉