New Aircraft Carrier

[TWR]

After springing a leak in the Prop Seal, all personal are issued with Chewing gum just in case it helps with further leaks.

[dannyk13]

Do you have a link?

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42406138

[mikey4444]

HMS Queen Elizabeth: Leak found on new aircraft carrier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42406138

[emmie]

all that money, crikey and it springs a leak.

[mikey4444]

Emmie got in there before me.

[theshedman]

Embarrassing yes but that is what the sea trials are all about. Like having a snagging list on a new house. Don't think you will find a ship anywhere that doesn't leak somewhere. That's what the bilge pumps are for.

[bhg481]

Hands-up all those people who've bought a new car and had NOTHING wrong with it. The leak is 200 litres/hour, the size of a water-butt - if you extrapolate it to 5 tons of water/day on a ship weighing 65,000 tons and about 300 metres long it comes down to a bit of damp on the floor. I don't think it's in much danger of sinking anytime soon.

[malagabob]

Should have picked it up on sea trials or before. But 200 gallons an hour isn’t a abandon ship scenario.

[TWR]

That's when it was found Bob.

[malagabob]

It’s time for the waxed string and packing hammer and chisel and tighten the gland nut.

[Baldric]

///The fault on the £3.1bn carrier was first identified during sea trials///

[dannyk13]

Which is exactly the purpose of sea trials.

[douglas9401]

If the fragrant Ms Sturgeon, who knows a thing or two about steering untried leaky vessels, can call having to plane the joints of a brand new bridge where it meets land 'snagging' then yes, sorting out leaks on a big old boat can use the same terminology even if both show workmanship to the usual standard.

I did hear it was due back at the yard to have speed bumps fitted to stop those young tearaways creating havoc for pedestrians on the deck with their fast jets.

[aelmpvw]

are all the crew supplied with a bucket?

[waterboatman]

It's nothing unusual to find faults large and small in anything new, that's what sea trials are all about. A leaking propshaft seal is nothing to worry about, it's not bad enough to stop the ship sailing and doing her job.It will be repaired and all will be well.

[bhg481]

Just for a bit of fun, a back-of-envelope calculation.

Deck area is approx 16,000sq metres. If 1mm of rain falls that is 16 cubic metres = 16 tons of water.
To put it another way, if 1mm of rain falls in a day (light rainfall) that's the equivalent of 3 days' leak.
Man the lifeboats!!

[waterboatman]

:o} I like it!

[johnk]

I was a Marine Engineer back in the 60's and the sea glands then were meant to leak to lubricate and cool the bearing which was lignum vitae a hardwood, our ship never sunk and was 1/16th the size of the carrier.

[youngmafbog]

I really dont understand all the hysteria, it's being trialed for Gawds sake.

Anyone who has owned any sort of boat knows water gets in, that's why you have a bilge pump. This is a massive vessel that amount of water leaking would probably take it 100 years to sink.

[vulcan42]

Just another example of how the news media loves to belittle this country.