As we all know things are “happening” at the moment, but living just 15 miles from a major Royal Navy base we keep an eye on various comings and goings, mainly to know when not to go down to our beach one evening when it’s being use for a mock invasion event with JSF

Anyhoo, took a look today to keep track on various floaty things and found three of our “Tugs” off the Finish/Russia seaboard

Made me laugh a bit, the “tugs” must have taken weeks to get there

When they come back they will be tagged with the normal identifiers, but made me smile today.

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I wonder what they'll turn out to be ? Jules

We know……  Regards

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trawlers?

Well that's what the Russians seem to have a lot of, scattered all over the world, as soon as something interesting turns up - there's a Russian trawler "fishing" nearby. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
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Don't worry. It's just our very own RNLI covertly picking up "refugees" from further afield

No, it’s a few of our own lads stuck in three really quite over armed Tugs  Regards

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Today's "tugs" look far diffent to the tugs of yesteryear and have many purposes apart from towing, it's just a class designation, much depends on the colour  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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In that case you must have known from your location that just a few days ago the new HMS Queen Elizabeth,oh sorry soon to be another Tug, was in Loch Long at Glenmallan fueling up for a long journey…..I wonder where?  Regards

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No, the QE is still a carrier but some tugs now look like oil support vessels, many are designated tugs dependent on deck fittings and some are painted grey and have an A designation on the hull others appear to be purely commercial but I won't tell you the hull colours but their secondary task is not apparent.
Bit like the Airbus 320 Boris had painted pretty colours, it's main task is in flight refuelling which it can do also carrying VIPs, whether it has been used to refuel carrying VIPs may be moot but it has that capability depending on the flight distance, you will also find it is also used to carry service personnel to their duties in various operating regions as are the grey painted ones. my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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In that case you must have known from your location that just a few days ago the new HMS Queen Elizabeth,oh sorry soon to be another Tug, was in Loch Long at Glenmallan fueling up for a long journey…..I wonder where?

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No, the QE is still a carrier but some tugs now look like oil support vessels, many are designated tugs dependent on deck fittings and some are painted grey and have an A designation on the hull others appear to be purely commercial but I won't tell you the hull colours but their secondary task is not apparent.
Bit like the Airbus 320 Boris had painted pretty colours, it's main task is in flight refuelling which it can do also carrying VIPs, whether it has been used to refuel carrying VIPs may be moot but it has that capability depending on the flight distance, you will also find it is also used to carry service personnel to their duties in various operating regions as are the grey painted ones.

Yes, don’t worry know about those Tugs, but the ones around here are called names like “SD Faithful” “SD Powerful” etc.

And they are classic “tugs”…..none of this mamby pamby Jack of all trades stuff, these are little bruisers

It is funny though when you track a few warships bristling with enough tech to puncture the Moon and then they turn into “tugs” overnight.

One of our neighbours up the hill was senior chief mechanical at Devonport…….he still glows at night  Regards

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