wish i could join the Royal Navy

@@captainchaos1311 that's the idea of Navy, to get new recruits and therefore are the benefits for the two visitors. Good idea from Navy.

I think you meant to say "As a US Marine I got to work with the Marines." Honour your seniors.

Wow, cool.

That is actually TOTALLY Cool,and I've heard of English Hospitality but WOW you Brits are Awesome...Best Wishes from Key Largo Florida and Thank your Father for his Service because Britain and the USA are in this shit to the End win or lose:)

Haha MI-6.

@@haljetdvr woops

Jttv 😂

Little do they know the RN has resumed conscription!

They did spend several years studying in the UK.

The Captain's mess is more equipped than theirs

I work on a vessel usually designated flag ship, our best VIP quaters aren't even close to those of HMS Albion. Holy shit.

@@thomasstuhr7243 albion is the flagship of the fleet (not to be confused with the flag ship of the first sea lord, HMS victory). Bulwark, the sister ship, was previously the flagship.

not only better than any other officer of enlisted person cabin, down in the seamans mess they have 40 to 50 people in the same space.

Thank you for that informative comment. The only time I have been on an operational RN vessel was a nuclear submarine when I was a boy. Accommodation was ridiculously cramped as you'd expect on even a big submarine but I'd never have imagined even the captain would have such a large room on any warship.

When an aircraft ditched on launching from the new aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, the rescue boat was launched in half the time of the normal drill practice time. The training paid off big time. They actually weren't needed. The pilot after ejecting landed with his parachute hooked on a lighting pole on the front of the ship. Quick thinking deck crew dragged him onboard before he slid down the ship's bow.

😂😂😂😂😂😍

Fearless was deployed to the Falklands during the Argentine conflict if I remember correctly. Were you serving at that time?h

Much later 2001-2003ish!

@@tobyfoster2190 HMS Fearless 1976 to 1979 I helped supply the means to make her go...….. I supplied the feed water for the boilers, four stage flash evaporators making seven tons per hour.

@@tobyfoster2190 + You must have caught her last deployment she was decommissioned early 2002, We played escort 1982 (F126) Falklands.

I served on the Fearless as The Air dep SMR from Dec '71 till May '75. Loved it!!

@Michael Pezzullo I think the many unemployed young criminals should be drafted

Not allowed to call them dummies anymore. Simulated casualty" 😂

There is a female version, she is called Ruth Overboard, the wife of Fred Overboard

The Royal Navy has been THE Navy for the past four hundred years.

You mean an "amphibious transport dock", which is basically a mini (3/4 scale) version of a U.S. "dock landing ship", and much smaller than a real amphibious assault ship, which is essentially an aircraft carrier with a landing craft well. The UK had exactly ONE, until they decommissioned it in 2018. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ocean_(L12)#/media/File:Apache_Helicopter_Takes_off_from_HMS_Ocean_During_Operation_Ellamy_MOD_45153052.jpg

@@mrnickbig1 Wikipedia may refer to it as a "amphibious transport dock" but the Royal Navy refer to her as a amphibious assault ship.

@@stephenphelps9916 , actually, the RN calls it "amphibious transport dock"! The context of "amphibious assault ship" is used as a broad term, not ship class. Here is an excerpt from the official RN website. "HMS Albion has been described as the Royal Navy’s ‘Swiss Army knife’ - and for good reason. This amphibious transport dock is capable of carrying 400 sailors and Royal Marines with a huge range of skills and experience, from technicians and engineers to medics and chefs. " www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/the-fighting-arms/surface-fleet/assault-ships/hms-albion

@@stephenphelps9916 You may want to so "Oh Great to know" I suspect mrnickbig is Military.

@mrnickbig1 HMS Ocean was is referred to as a “Landing Platform Helicopter” as an official ship type in the RN. HMS Ocean did not have Well Deck, this would mean that whilst yes, the ship had landing craft, the ship would have been incapable of landing something like a Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank (from landing craft). The feature of a Well Deck is required for a ship to be classified as an Amphibious Assault Ship. As well as this, in NATO there is no which thing as an Amphibious Assault Ship, only things like LPHs and numerous other amphibious ship types. I believe that you are trying to join HMS Ocean with the US terminology and not the NATO standard terminology. Adding to this, in the question of the Albion Class ships, there is a lot of overlapping between different classifications of ships. So yes, the ships are in one sense an “Amphibious Transport Dock”, but could in fact be classed as “Amphibious Assault Ship” as there are no real requirements set in stone for these kinds of debates (other than the obvious factors of the ships needing to be able to launch large numbers of troops). And finally, in reference of how you want to define a ships class by it’s size, you only need to look at Aircraft Carriers to see that your argument is flawed. Both the former HMS Ark Royal and the USS Nimitz were Aircraft Carriers of around to same time period. If you look at the size difference between the two ships, one is almost 100,000 tones heavier than the other, but both are classified as Aircraft Carriers. Ps, the Albion class is actuality bigger than both of the US Class’s of Dock Landing Ship. PPS, are you sure that you are referring to the Albion Class of Ships, or the Bay Class (which the UK and Australia also uses)?

Poor Fred, definitely unlucky! I was shocked how far he had to fall before he hit the sea this time.

Not sure about now but during my time in the US Navy, it was always "Oscar." I was submarines so not sure if that was the case on other vessels as well.

Ahem Royal

Sorry I’m so so so so sorry. I’ll never let that happen again! Dick!

@@jamesbond9873 it's ok it's kind of arrogant of us to say that we have "the" Royal Navy and every other monarchies navy is the royal navy of that country.

@@tc9634 + Nothing arrogant about it, founded in 1546 its the oldest Royal Navy, simple. Ex F126, F70, D89 myself, I'm not going to apologise for saying"Royal Navy" mucker.

@@jamesbond9873 You didn't edit your mistake though.

Britain isn't in Schengen and it doesn't give out Schengen visas. It's like asking why Briitain didn't give them a Canadian visa :s

@@brazeiar9672 true, but it'll still end up in the comments because reasons...

yes, a ship but, as they kept referring to it, not a 'battle ship'...! 😁

They would have never been given Flag Officer's quarters on a U.S. Navy ship...at least not back when I was in. Nice score though.

@@operator0 Recruitment opportunity for British Military on KZfaq

Paul D If so, I don‘t mind. As long as they treat Kika and Dan with the utmost care and courtesy, of which I am sure!

Paul D I heard that on US ships there is no alcohol. Maybe that’s why the British sailors seem more relaxed

@Jim Nickles in the US Navy? Americans are way to strict when it comes to downtime and relaxing. Maybe the Puritan influence? I would guess that on the Royal Navy sailors that are not on duty they can have beer every night. I think I heard that from an American reporter who visited a British military ship in NYC.

Also be careful if anyone offers to show you "the golden rivet ".

Of course the Captain moved out of his cabin to important guests, that's been normal for hundreds of years. Not in any other countries though. Can you imagine a Yank Captain doing that?

@Richard Crook LOL - I also noticed that -looked like there was also steam, but could have been just warm water and cold air (seeing as everyone was bundled up).

So we’ve learned 👌😂

@@SailingUma Uma status that has been elevated from boat to super boat now!!

I was invited as an American civilian to make a passage on a US nuclear submarine from Hawaii to San Diego on board Hawkbill by the captain. That is suppose to not ever happen either.

USN ship are smaller and more efficient like the RFA bay class, but the albion class can carry more

It would be rude to suggest favours were swapped in the traditional manner in Portsmouth taverns, wouldn't it? (I honestly don't think there is the remotest possibility but it does sound like a scene from a 1970's Benny Hill comedy - with the RN sailor being Benny obvs. Sorry, feller, if you are reading this)

UK left EU Jan 31st.

That’s what I was thinking too, how can these countries deny people from staying in their country due to visa and citizenship statues but hey come on aboard our military ship, come inside the bridge and record everything while you’re at ... lmao ohhhh gotta just laugh at bureaucratic ironies

@@scottbeaulieu8192 UK haven't denied Kika. She can stay in UK, she just got a very limited visa to other Schengen countries. At least that is my understanding.

​@@working2bselfsufficient724 True, but nothing will change until the end of 2020 when the transition deadline expires. There are still open boarders and trade to and from the UK as we speak.

My point is that i find that unfair she comes from Haiti and gets three months but for example Dylan Magaster from FLORB that also sails the world got 180 days. That tells me that they consider her a risk of illegal immigration or something along those lines. Being invited by the Royal Navy tells me that they have faith in both Dan and Kika to accurately show and represent the UK's finest but that same country wouldn't give her more time to stay. Now they probably can't extend their Schengen visa in the UK anymore but my point stands that being invited by one of the worlds finest navies is still a good look.

Except when talking about a sub...which is a boat.

That is a good definition. Personally a ship that is not my own I will always call a ship. Calling other peoples ships "boats" can be perceived as being rude. This one I would call a vessel :-)

@@Ron-df1mp I think there are ships large enough that you could put a submarine on them. How you might get it on the ship is another matter! lol

@@scyz2807 floating dry docks or "sub tenders". They sink enough for the sub to sail in and then purge all the water out.

You’ll just have to wait until next week ;) and by that I mean Thursday or Friday when we get the next episode finished.

Invited to a Navy ship, but not allowed to be in the Schengenspace for a year ........ stupid laws here

@@SailingUma I cannot wait to hear how in the hell you scored this Royal treatment. My wife and I once got to sail for 2 days on the USS Enterprise, but we had to sleep in the racks with the rest of the sailors - packed in like sardines. We are so jealous! :-)

Have you investigated "Seaman's book"? The big selling point of having a Seaman's Book, comes when it is presented by a person who would ordinarily require a visa to enter the country. If the seaman can show that he is joining or leaving a vessel then the border official can waive the visa requirement.

@@olafk2297 Thats exactly what i had on my mind. But I think the laws are oke, the problem is the system that kills a self thinking and judgement mentality of the people in charge off the stamp.