Royal Navy submarine responsible for NI trawler incident

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Source: RTE

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has admitted a Royal Navy submarine was responsible for dragging a trawler backwards off the Northern Ireland coast earlier this year.

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Initially it was thought a nearby Russian submarine had been responsible.

However, the trawler’s skipper has said he was now relieved to have finally received confirmation of the incident from the British Minister of Defence.

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“It's only the last couple of weeks that I've been able to venture back to the spot where it happened and that's where the good fishing is. So it's affected myself and my crew big time."


Read more: http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0908/726409-submarine-royal-navy-ni/

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1. ‘Oops, it was us’: Military concedes British sub, not Russian, damaged UK trawler in April

http://www.rt.com/uk/314709-british-sub-trawler-russian/

‘Oops, it was us’: Military concedes British sub, not Russian, damaged UK trawler in April

Published time: 8 Sep, 2015 10:36
Edited time: 8 Sep, 2015 12:25

The UK Ministry of Defence admits that a submarine that damaged a British trawler in April this year was one of its own, not Russian. Earlier, Fleet Street was awash with speculation that a ‘hostile Russian sub’ had nearly destroyed the fishing vessel.

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Before the official statement, British media was abuzz with speculation about which country owned the vessel that damaged the KAREN. Many media reports were certain it must have been a ‘Russian submarine’.

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[HassleCat]

2. Not as bad as what we did

In 2001, the USS Greeneville, an attack submarine, sunk a Japanese training ship, killing nine people. The Greeneville was performing one of those rapid surfacing maneuvers, where it comes up form the deep very quickly, and the front third of the boat comes out of the water. Basically, the Greeneville's captain was showing off for some civilian visitors.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. They were civilian Bush donors.

Right after he "won" an election saying he was going to restore honor to our military.

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6. And in 2009, two US subs collided in the Strait of Hormuz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hartford_and_USS_New_Orleans_collision

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3. RTE is one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raidi%C3%B3_Teilif%C3%ADs_%C3%89ireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Raidió Teilifís Éireann[3] (Irish pronunciation: [ˈradʲo ˈtʲɛlʲəfʲiːʃ ˈeːrʲən] ( listen); Radio [and] Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on 1 January 1926,[4] while regular television broadcasts began on 31 December 1961,[5] making it one of the oldest continuously operating public service broadcasters in the world. RTÉ also publishes a magazine called the RTÉ Guide, published weekly, and is orientated around RTÉ television and radio.

RTÉ is financed by a television licence fee and through advertising. Some RTÉ services are only funded by advertising, while other RTÉ services are only funded by the licence fee. RTÉ is a statutory body, run by a board appointed by the Government of Ireland. General management of the organisation is in the hands of the Executive Board headed by the Director-General. RTÉ is regulated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Radio Éireann, RTÉ's predecessor and at the time a section of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, was one of 23 founding organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.

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4. That must've been one horrible experience.

There you are filling your nets for the chipper, happy as clams, when suddenly your boat is jerked backwards. Is it a whale in the nets, are we going to die?

At least the sub didn't surface under the trawler and cut it in half.

Anger After U.S. Sub Sinks Japanese Boat 9 February 2001
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94115&page=1
Nine Japanese are still missing — four 17-year-old students, two teachers, and three crew members.

Twenty-six survivors were found stranded amid debris Friday, huddled in three life rafts.

The 499-ton Japanese trawler was carrying 35 people, including 13 high-school fisheries students and two teachers, when it was hit and critically damaged Friday by a 6,900-ton U.S. Navy attack sub about nine miles from Honolulu's Pearl Harbor, officials said.

The Japanese boat sank in just minutes, leaving only an oil slick, rafts, and scattered debris by the time Coast Guard rescuers arrived on the scene.

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7. The funniest line of the whole article

"Initially it was thought a nearby Russian submarine had been responsible."
All the reporting I remember asserted that it was Russian submarine with virtually no substantive evidence presented. Same thing applies to the sighting of Russian submarines off the coast of Sweden.
"Fear the Russians!" Seriously? I don't think we're in the 1950's anymore.
The primary nation that hasn't given up the cold war is the US. We may be using economic weapons rather than military hardware but it's still war by other means.