NAVY NEWS, FEBRUARY 2010 7
Fire on the water
TRACER creates a devices, designed to fend down, allowing engineers repairs to the replenishment
spectacular light display as off fast attack craft. to meticulously inspect at sea (RAS) winch and flight
it ricochets off the surface All machinery needs every component, replacing deck crane.
of the Channel during a servicing, and just like a defective items prior to Ocean has been in
night-time shoot by HMS car Ocean needed checking reassembly and testing. routine maintenance since
Ocean. over and worn parts The engineering trials the autumn following a busy
Sailors on the helicopter replacing – though in her were conducted at sea to year that included her
carrier took the chance case it was more than just enable the engines to be trip to the Far
to test themselves on the changing the oil and filters. given a good workout. East with
ship’s Miniguns during a The ship’s engineers, in Other work carried the Taurus
stint at sea on engineering conjunction with Babcock out during the 11-week 09 Task
trials following a major Marine Engineering, carried maintenance period Group.
overhaul at Devonport. out a 24,000-hour service included repair She will
The Minigun is a high- on the starboard main and servicing of be ready
velocity six-barrelled engine, a job that took eight the ship’s four to deploy
Gatling-type rotary gun weeks to complete. landing craft, a again
capable of firing up to 3,000 The engine was totally new hydraulic later on
7.62mm rounds per minute stripped pump being fitted this
– and the Navy’s largest to the forward year.
warship has four of the aircraft lift and
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