3 New Navy Vessels for Irish Naval Service

If you put a common sense sign like that up here at the moment you would be done for Discrimination

Does the dry dock in Rushbrooke get much use? Would permanently keeping Éithne there as a museum be an option or creating a new space for her? Let her see out her days where it all began and should make maintaining her easier. It is just across the road from a train station which makes it reasonably accessible and I'd say it would do a great trade with school tours at the very least.

Okay, thanks. Another dock could be dug-out alongside, obviously that would be costly but maybe keeping her there would offset some of the cost of maintaining her (which was previously identified here as a reason why a museum ship won't work) and extend her life as a museum, justifying the cost the conversion costs.

I think Camden would make more sense, it fits a lot better thematically given Camden's focus on the defences of Cork harbour. I haven't made it to Spike Island but from what I've read, the focus there is more on the prison experience, given how short the "fort" period on Spike Island lasted. In addition, there's a pier at Camden that could be modified to take Éithne, provided the water is deep enough. Of course, that in itself would require a bit of work and from what I've read in recent weeks, Cork County Council is doing its best to kill off Camden under the pretext of "health and safety".

Perhaps sink her for target practice in an area suitable for divers?

Pretty easy for planning authorities to prevent any filling in and particular types of development for part or all of the site. If the current owners don’t see it being used as a dockyard going forward, then surely they wouldn't object to the dry dock and the area around it being CPOed.

I doubt the navy of DoD will want the eithne hanging around , with a begging bowl to save the ship going around every few years ,

Port of Cork seem to wisely stay away from these issues, so it'd likely be city council who'd sponsor it ,

I cant see it coming close to covering its maintenance costs - or even being the centre-piece of a marine display , or museum, its not aircraft carrier or battleship levels of huge, it hasnt got battle honours , and it doesnt have historical significance, other than being the last ship built in Verolme

Hard to argue with that. The original Bord Snip took care of any momentum of ambition in the mid 80s.

Still, hopefully we're in a new dawn of capability, all things considered, despite the current very serious manpower issues. Hopefully a new comprehensive package of remuneration and career opportunities is emerging and a whole new integrated active reserve component.

Hopefully.

Both Dublin Port and Cork County Council have withdrawn their interests in trying to sustain Eithne, perhaps someone has been pointing out the maths to them?

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0518/1384328-le-eithne/

Was that when she had Asbestos removed?

So not a full refurb.

Ciaras & Orlas 75mm that have being removed will they be kept for spare parts or sold on

So will they be sold?

Reading the article below from a few days ago The navy doing i suppouse what you could call shift work could help numbers espcially when they set up a east coast base. Its good to see they are trying to do something different.

If they got there hands on some of the PRS apartment blocks in dublin to rent out at a cheaper rate it would also help get younger people to join. If you where single with no kids and where able to live in apartment subsidised it would help long term with your saving to buy a property

They've come to London. Would have gone yesterday if I'd known

Do the naval service work with the state research vessels , or irish lights vessel much ?

I've heard several times lately about the russian threats to cables and pipelines strategic to ireland lately ,

Usually these "threats" aren't in irish territorial waters , so we're not entitled to tell them to bugger off ..

And theyre often not militarized vessels either .. so shoot em ups unlikely..

I suppose what im asking is can the naval service request assistance, or use of state assets that'd be more suitable , for either operating underwater survey tools , or scanning pipelines ,