This from Defence.
The Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Farncomb is returning to Singapore after partial failure of its cooling system during the Five Power Defence Agreement (FPDA) Exercise Bersama Lima 2011 (BL11).
The submarine crew followed standard emergency operating procedures to clear the refrigerant gas, Freon which had leaked as a result of the failure. No one was injured.
Farncomb will undertake repairs in Singapore over the coming days.
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Faulty Australian sub fleet costs $800M per year
Story surfaces of HMAS Farncomb dive and propulsion failure incident (Update-with Defence Response)
Great story about a Collins-class sub in an exercise that never happened
7 comments:
Don't they have tradesmen on board anymore, oh I forgot, we are in the new age.
Gees, I also heard that the local council bus did too.
if nothing had broken, do u think we would even hear of this? a gas leak? how is that news?
You are correct, you did not hear the problems with the 212/4 they are having in Korea, which are major.Look it up.
By the way my local council got over it, and even thought the unit that failed was made in Germany did not stress.
Another victory for the DMO.
I did not know they had one?
Bonza where are you?
Do not tell Eric,however most of the valves and pumps in the 212 are made in Melbourne.
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