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THE NAVAL ENGINEER Contents Editorial Board, Editor’s Corner ............................................................................................................ 1 Launch of the Naval Engineering Strategy – CNEO’s Seminar 2013 ................................................... 2 HMS Queen Elizabeth Preparations For Sea – A Mission Systems Perspective By Cdr S.D. Roberts 4 Royal Navy Engineers Open Golf Championships 2013 ...................................................................... 7 Lusty Hosts Liverpool Engineers By Lt E.H. Leckey ........................................................................... 8 Engineering External Validation By WO1 W.J. Suffolk ........................................................................ 9 Beating Last Ship Syndrome: Delivering HMS Duncan – a Ship’s Staff Perspective By Cdr S.P. Henderson and Cdr P.G. Game ......................................................................... 12 Naval Engineering – Lessons Identified (1) .......................................................................................... 21 Naval Engineering – Lessons Identified (2) .......................................................................................... 23 Collingwood Unveils Collingwood ......................................................................................................... 26 Maritime Unmanned Air Systems Integration – A UK/France Joint Perspective By Joshua Venner ... 27 ET – Phone Home: Tele-Engineering Re-Invigorated By Lt E. Kearsey .............................................. 29 The “White-Hot Heat of Technology” Turns the Tide – Seventy Years Ago By the Editor .................... 32 The Magic Matchstick Trick .................................................................................................................. 36 What’s Happening in Weapon Engineering Training Group – 2013 Update ........................................ 37 One Year and Three Laptops Later … By WO1 D.J. Archer ............................................................... 40 • The magazine is published for information, entertainment and to promote discussion on matters of general interest to engineers of all sub specialisations (Air, Marine, Weapon and Training Management). • Articles and letters are welcomed and may be submitted in any format from handwriting to e-mail, CD or DVD. • All correspondence to: The Editor, The Naval Engineer, HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hants PO14 1AS. Tel 01329 333895 (Military – 93825 3895): Navynet MWS-TNE-EDITOR, Internet – mws-tne-editor@fleetfost.mod.uk • All enquiries concerning distribution should be addressed to: Ministry of Defence, Forms & Pubs Commodity Management, Building C16, C Site, Lower Arncott, Bicester, OXON, OX25 1LP, copy to the Editor. • The contents do not necessarily bear the authority of the Ministry of Defence, may articulate personal views, and may bear privately owned rights. Photographs: The covers: Front: the final Type 45 – HMS Duncan leaves the Clyde, and arrives for the first time in her home port of Portsmouth (see article on Page 14); Rear: the old and the new – 4.5” guns on HMS Edinburgh in the South Atlantic, and HMS Diamond (Photos: L(Phot) Dan Rosenbaum and POA(Phot) Paul A’Barrow). Acknowledgements to the Fleet Photographic Unit who supply most of the general photographs. Other photos supplied by the authors or as credited.
The Naval Engineer EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman Captain R.C. Rusbridger MSc, RN IAC Programme Manager, DTTCP THE NAVAL ENGINEER Captain N.T. Blackman OBE, BSc, MA, MBA, CEng, FIET, RN DACOS (Air Engineering), Navy Command HQ Captain R.J. Carrick BEng, MSc, MBA, CEng, FIMechE, RN CSO(E) Submarines, Navy Command HQ Captain A.M. Cree BEng MSc, MA, MIET, FCIPD, RN Commanding Officer, Defence Centre of Training Support Captain A.M.G. Glennie BSc, CEng, MIMarEST, RN Captain Engineering (Portsmouth) Captain R.E.H. Spalding BSc, CMgr, CEng, FIET, RN DACOS (Personnel Planning), Navy Command HQ Warrant Officer D.J. Archer IEng, IMarEng, MIMarEST, MCGI Chief Naval Engineer Warrant Officer Warrant Officer A.C. Boswell MSc, MCGI, NDipM, IEng, MIET Devonport Heritage Site Manager Warrant Officer G. Humphreys MA, FCMI, MCGI Deputy Training Officer (Outreach), DSMarE HMS Sultan Warrant Officer T. P. Maloney MCGI, IEng Training Officer FasMat, FOST(SM) Warrant Officer N. Potter SFM (Devonport) Staff WO1 Professor C.G. Hodge MSc, CEng, FIMarEST, FREng BMT Defence Services EDITOR Commander T.J. Stoneman BSc, MA, RN (Retd) HMS Collingwood 93 825 3895 (BT 01329 333895), fax 93 825 2712 (BT 01329 332712) E-mail: MWS-TNE-EDITOR (Internet E-mail: mws-tne-editor@fleetfost.mod.uk) 1 Editor’s Corner This issue includes mention of three naval leaders from the pages of history. Admiral Collingwood and Admiral Duncan were both prominent in the days of sail, and Captain Walker some seventy years ago, during the Battle of the Atlantic. Do their stories still have relevance in the computer age, when weapons of war (by which I mean everything from small arms to capital ships) have changed dramatically since the days of such men? Whilst it’s true that much has changed, some things have not. The sea itself, for a start. It’s still as unforgiving as ever – neglect securing for sea at your peril! The men (and now women) – yes, their knowledge, skills and abilities are very different from the days when a sailor was described as “every hair a rope yarn; every finger a marline-spike; every drop of blood, Stockholm tar”, but our people still need the same qualities of leadership and trust as their forebears – whether they are commanding, junior ratings or anywhere in between. The same core values we require from our sailors today would have been just as recognisable to the likes of Duncan, Collingwood or Walker – and were just as necessary to ensure that the Royal Navy was ready to fight and win against a determined enemy and challenging odds at Camperdown, Trafalgar or in defeating the German U-boat menace. The need for competent leadership alongside good management (I read today of a memo written by Admiral Nelson ten days before Trafalgar, exhorting his logistics officers to ensure they were not mis-using emergency supplies of onions) is still as valid today as it always was. In sum, the values we seek in our people are little changed through history; they are all part of a naval ethos which goes back many centuries, which we must ensure carries on into the future. Thinking of writing for TNE? Deadline for articles or letters is Friday 19 July 2013. The Naval Engineer is also available on the Intranet at http://defenceintranet. diif.r.mil.uk/ Organisations/Orgs/ Navy/Organisations/ Orgs/FOST/Pages/ TheNavalEngineer.aspx A full index of The Naval Engineer, and of Review of Naval Engineering, and soft copies of recent back issues are available at: http://cwd-r-web-001. cwd.dii.r.mil.uk/mws_ csg/publications/naval_ engineering.html. Back issues of the Journal of Naval Engineering (JNE) can be found through the JNE Internet webpage: http://www.jneweb.com/ login.aspx. Jump to Contents
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