NAVY NEWS, FEBRUARY 2009 7
Ultimate test of Endurance
Engines
swapped
LAST month we promised via galley
to feature ‘a busy day for
Endurance’.
MAJOR maintenance work –
including the removal of a diesel
And how. Just not the anticipated
engine which entailed the partial
one...
demolition of a galley – has been
December 16 2008 proved to
going well on frigate HMS Argyll.
be the most fateful day in the
Sections of the galley floor and
Antarctic survey ship’s 17-year
ceiling had to be removed so that
career.
the old engine could be craned
The ship’s company were close
out and the new one installed as
to abandoning the icebreaker after
part of the five-week package.
her engine room flooded following
Many other jobs have also been
a suspected valve failure.
completed, with work on weapons
The flood – some 200 miles
and firefighting systems, diving on
west of the Chilean port of Punta
the hull and painting to ensure
Arenas – left Endurance adrift,
that Argyll is not only in the best
without power and in danger of
material state that she can be, but
running aground in the Strait of
that she also looks her best.
Magellan.
With the ship’s company making
The combined efforts of the
the most of the time to top-up
Red Plum’s damage control
fitness levels (see page 43), both
parties and Chilean tugs ensured
the ship and her sailors should be
the ship did not founder.
fighting fit for the forthcoming
Ten civilians – members of the
Taurus deployment.
British Schools Exploring Society
who had joined the icebreaker to
conduct scientific research and
Investigation
ecological studies – were flown
off by a Chilean Navy Puma
into deaths
helicopter. THE MOD has confi rmed that
No ship’s company were injured an investigation is under way into
in the incident, which is now the a suspected friendly fi re incident
subject of an official investigation in Afghanistan on January 14 this
and Board of Inquiry (which is year.
why this account of the incident Two men – Capt Tom Sawyer of
sadly lacks the vivid accounts of the Royal Artillery and Cpl Danny
the crew’s deeds in saving her). Winter of the Royal Marines –
● Calm before the storm... Seals catch some rays on the shore at King Edward Point in South Georgia while HMS Endurance is berthed
“The situation was extremely
Picture: LA(Phot) Kaz Williams, HMS Endurance
were killed in the incident, while
difficult, but the exceptional two other members of their fire
damage control efforts and first to Punta Arenas then to the lift ship has ferried her home Ocean poured in, Endurance did numbers now total in excess of support team were injured.
professionalism of the ship’s Falklands, where she remains. safely to Portsmouth from the at least fi nish her fi rst (and only...) five million... and we should know The incident happened during
company kept Endurance safe and Most of her sailors were Falklands. work period in Antarctic waters for sure one day. an operation involving some 100
help soon arrived in the form of a flown home from Chile and the Engineers were still assessing this austral summer. That work Scores of images were taken NATO personnel from Denmark
Chilean tug,” said CO Capt Gavin Falklands with just a skeleton staff the extent of the damage to the ended in South Georgia with the by Endurance’s Lynx flying over and the UK, aimed at clearing
Pritchard. left behind to look after her. ship as Navy News went to press, emphasis on fur seals. South Georgia. enemy forces from the ‘Green
He said he and his ship’s Despite what you read in some so we cannot give you a timescale The British Antarctic Survey They’ve now been handed to Zone’ near Gereshk in Helmand.
company had been warmed by papers, the ship is not being on when the Red Plum will be is counting the island’s seal the scientists to count – manually A Military Police investigation
messages of support from friends scrapped. back in service (or the cost of population which has exploded marking dots on the male, female is now being conducted into the
and family around the globe. She will be repaired and repairs for that matter). since culling stopped. and pups’ heads (sounds like fun incident – normal procedure when
The stricken vessel was towed returned to service – once a heavy Anyway, before half the Southern It’s thought the mammals’ – Ed). a fatality occurs.
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