British nuclear submarine runs aground off Scottish coast

[GAP]

British nuclear submarine runs aground off Scottish coast
LONDON— Reuters Published Friday, Oct. 22, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/british-nuclear-submarine-runs-aground-off-scottish-coast/article1768316/

A British Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine ran aground off the coast of north-west Scotland on Friday, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.

“This is not a nuclear incident,” the spokesman said. “There are no injuries to personnel and the submarine is watertight.”

The MoD said it was “assessing the situation”.

The Maritime and Coastguard said it was alerted to the incident at about 7:20 a.m. local time and had sent an emergency tug boat to assist.

The coastguard said the nuclear sub appeared to have got into trouble on rocks off the Isle of Skye.

 

[Journeyman]

Not just a submarine, but HMS Astute -- just commissioned in August; the local kids haven't even had a chance to key the paint yet.

That's got to hurt.

 

[brihard]

Career fires alright... career fires alright... career stops.

Cant submarine to the left.

 

[HavokFour]

Again? At least they didn't hit another sub this time around.

 

[dapaterson]

I`ll bet we could buy it from them, cheap, as part of their downsizing.

Because we all know nothing could go wrong with buying a used British submarine...

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Maybe we can lease it from them till we get all of our fleet back in operation.

 

[StudentGrant]

Amusingly, the list (issued two days earlier) of assets and capabilites to be cut as part of the cull on defence budgets
includes the tug they sent to assist Astute...