HMS Tamar: A Guided Tour Around The Royal Navy's 'Greenest' Ship ⚓ | Forces TV
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HMS Tamar is the "newest, greenest" ship in the Royal Navy. The Batch-2 River-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) joined the fleet in June, raising the White Ensign from her deck for the first time, on the river in south-west England that shares her name.
In November, she was declared ready to patrol the seas after completing intensive board and search training. Earlier this year, while the OPV stopped in London, we were given a guided tour around Tamar to find out more about her capabilities.
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Was privileged in helping to build all the OPV,s in Glasgow with our workforce .Hope you enjoy the products of our labour 👍
Sconny Botland Wont be getting any more ship building work off the royal navy if you vote for independance however.
@@randlerobbertson8792 very true thats why 99% of the work force voted no ..not just about an independence outcome .but because we take pride in building ships for the Royal Navy have done for decades
@@Craig-pw8ce And they are very fine ships indeed! god bless the well meaning Scots, an asset to enrich the United Kingdom . You would be so greatly missed its pretty unthinkable, and those who advocate it are viewed with derision and utter contempt south of the border.
@@Craig-pw8ce RULE BRITANNIA
@HMS King George V ty shipbuilding is probably the last manufacturing of national pride we have left in this beautiful island of ours .we are currently working on the type 26 frigate protecting our shores in the future and keeping our four nations unified 👍
What a beauty she is. God speed from your friends in the USA.
Dilmore was on Duncan, she was on the Channel 5 series which is brilliant, "Warship"I believe it's called
Yeah I saw that too. The proper name is 'warship: life at sea'
Need new series of that
@@reecevince2166 +1 on this. I love documentaries like that.
Was gonna say the same
Ahhh yes, the condom fairy
Always like to see a video on warships that starts off showing off the gunnery. I could see the AB's mind thinking "this is the 30mm Oerlikon, it blows things apart". Fair play to him.
@@bricks2850 wha-- this is a patrol ship not an anti air fleet escort
Great ship for opv overseas duties.
1:24 Dilmore she used to be on HMS Duncan small world also an l85a2 with out the bipod grip and side rails just looks wrong
Wasn’t she on that HMS Duncan documentary?
Fabulous thank you for sharing, ⚓wish I was young again.
That 30mm looks perfect for seeing off French fishermen.
1. Though fishermen were promised licenses under the brexit deal, wig had the U.K. and Jersey failed to deliver on
2. That sounds like an act of war, and a good way to get involved in a war with the entirety of the EU, because guess what, there’s a mutual defense clause
@@johnlavery3433 I'd say the 'froggies' threatened an act of war by saying they would cut the power to the Island so pipe down ya clown
@@bikes02 cutting off exports isn’t an act of war. Honestly it’s criminally negligent that jersey is dependent on another nation for electricity. As is Northern Ireland.
If you want people to trade with you, don’t break the terms of trade deals
@@johnlavery3433 Typical remoaner still crying lmfao....cry us a river
@@bikes02 actually I’m Irish. I think brexit is great, Dublin got the largest share of banks leaving the U.K.. we just want the U.K. to obey the treaties they sign. You see, that’s how treaties are supposed work.
In military speak, 'green' means recently enlisted and trained, but not seen combat yet. Not that the soldier/ unit is environmentally friendly.
For some reason on the thumbnail the ship reminds me of the enclave mobile base crawler from fallout 3
I hope see you again in Victoria harbor
Greenest ship ,so here’s the guns - first thing off the bat.😂
How does that make it less green?
HAS Victory is the greenest ship!!
The Royal Navy station in Hong Kong before 1997 was called HMS Tamar.
I find it weird how they name shore stations with the same HMS prefix as is used for 'Her/His Majesty's Ship'. Would be be nice if for clarity they used something more like HMSS ('Her/His Majesty's Shore Station).
Not just RN, it was also HQ Far East Land Forces. I served there.
Excellent OPV
So when you go to war you really can feel good knowing you are greener than everyone else.😆
"Engine room... We need more push and shove!"
I know this is a WAR ship, and that is not a good thing but this is the sort of thing that should have lots of publicity because it generates pride in Britain's achievements and that is what this country needs at this time.
War maintains peace at a time. War is a constant.
There was a HMS Tamar build in UK in 1863 and get destoried in ww2 by the japanese in hong kong
That medic was on that HMS Duncan documentary
Yup, Rhiann Dilmore, she got an award at the end of the deployment as well.
@@MK-rr7cg yea I remember that now
For real I was like I've seen her before!
I wonder if a 'new ship' smell is like a 'new car' smell?
A big ship,but not a lot of armament for it's size.
Thats just what they were able to show us ......probs
It’s not a warship, it’s a dammed patrol boat, what do you expect it to have, and it’s actually rather small
It has scope for future upgrade, the main gun will most likely be replaced with a 40mm or 57mm bofors and the 30mm will get moved to the side, with another added to the other side. It may also get Martlet missiles.
It's mostly for presence, it has the 30mm cannon should it need to deal with an attack from such threats as pirates in the littoral zone, as well as the close defence miniguns and GPMGs. Though it's able to call in support from air assets should it require anti ship missiles.
It's also got some modularity for equipping a larger gun, like the 76 mm gun on the versions of this class that the Royal Thai Navy ordered and the Khareef-class Corvette that the Royal Navy of Oman ordered.
Don't forget though that the 30mm cannon and the two miniguns is still an improvement over the batch one OPVs, which only had a 20mm cannon and the two GPMGs. And the amount of frigates the fleet has will increase if the Type 26. 31 and 32 numbers planned don't get reduced.
@@johnlavery3433 Check out what the Russians pack onto their corvettes!
1:38 isn't she the lady from the Type 45 documentary?
Would have thought the sick bay bed would have more of a bucket shape to stop people rolling off!
Can we use this to shoot some of the ubiquitous dinghies out of the channel please 😁
The GMPG looked like an old Browning .50?
How can you tell a sailor? they are usually holding hands
Thank goodness, they put MPH instead kph. It was getting ridiculous having to constantly convert it.
She will do 24 knots max.
Wow very interesting machinery.
The ship job is to protect ain't it? What's wrong with being green? It's supposed to destroy enemies, not the environment.
Plus, reducing reliance on oil/our need to keep the middle east stable frees up a decent budget if we can remove it completely.
@@kimjonglongdong3158 exactly, being green also means efficiency, which means fuel saving, meaning less cost and tax dollars saved, longer range for more combat effectiveness, more energy security and less reliance on other states.
@@PB-hr3hy I think people who moan about us wanting things to be greener are just pillocks tbh haha.
Would like to hear some more statistics on this platform.
Very good first try, but how about stretching the hull and adding a hanger for a small helicopter and mounting a CWIS in the bow and Harpoon and Seasparrow missiles, two triple torpedo launchers as well. Give her some teeth.
Its not necessary as she is an Offshore patrol vessel designed to conduct "constabulary" operations against lightly armed vessels.... This class of ships will free up the type 45 destroyers & type 23 frigates(and later the type 26,31 & 32 frigates) to undertake the high end combat operations
Its not a corvette. Guess the whole "patrol boat" part went over your head.
@@lightfootpathfinder8218 Will the Argentinians, Iranians and the Somali pirates get that goodwill message?
@@olanrewajuihenacho178 Somali pirates wouldn't stand a chance against this ship(ak-47's vs a 30mm gun,12.7mm heavy machine guns and 7.62mm miniguns). Also even though the river class aren't deployed to the gulf they are capable of combating Iranian FAC which are for the most part armed with 14.5mm guns (although I agree they would be vulnerable to Iranian frigates and shore based missiles). Finally in regards to Argentina the river class Falklands guard ship is there to stop foreign vessels (usually Argentine or Chinese) entering UK waters to fish illegally not to combat the Argentine navy. Even if there was a confrontation of some kind the newest and most capable ship the Argentines have is the bouchard class OPV'S which are armed with a 30mm gun and two 12.7mm heavy machine guns which is the same as the river class
Nice
What ship is it alongside ?
HMS Belfast
Watched miss dilmour on warship or somthing like that
War has just become a lot more environmentally Greener.
The deck plates looked a bit grubby in the engine room.........obviously the morning watch didn't do them....LOL
It’s not green it’s grey lol
@Mary Mc Queen guess your not into sarcasm?
what's the point of these boats with their only armament being a 20-30 mm gun? even torpedo boats who are 5-10 times smaller have anti air and anti ship missiles like the german Gepard class. not to mention that this boat is the size of a corvette with 2000 tonnes and corvettes are quite capable whereas this just isn't.
Born in Liverpool, made in the Navy
I think this is a re-upload
So it is also recyclable ..even greener !
Definitely, this is the third time they’ve uploaded about this now.
It's been re-uploaded, because it's one of the vessels that will be used to patrol the fishing zones around the UK.
Great ship . massively under armed though ... needs the thales gun / missile mounting recently tested on / for type 23. badly . top of the list on the next refit.
Pusher and Shover 😁
bit of a change from the tribal /Leander and class 22 stretched frigate
how will it defend a river let alone the UK. how good it will be time will tell
Well its not meant for high end warfare (I believe it can be up-armed in needed), but its more meant for fisheries patrol, anti-piracy, general patrolling Etc. This thing won't be fighting Frigates, destroyers and submarines, it'll be fighting fishing boats and dinghies.
So basically they can’t defend themselves from aircraft, submarines or real surface warships? I guess the only vessel they can fight are French fishing boats? Am I missing something?
The only thing missing is your IQ
@@bikes02 We’ll you just demonstrated your IQ, or lack of IQ, by your answer. My question stands.
Yeah, you are missing everything! It's a patrol boat not a frigate! It is not intended to hunt submarines or take on a surface fleet. They are armed to tackle drug runners, terrorists etc. Its more of a policing of uk waters type role than a war fighting role.
That's like asking why the new Ajax Scout vehicles don't have the same gun as the Challenger. It's for patrol and fly the flag operations, if there's serious threat of anti-ship action then there's always the option of sending a frigate or an Astute sub instead. Not every ship has to be armed to the teeth at every moment, and these have the capability and space in the batch 2 design for fitting a larger naval gun to replace the 30mm cannon, or adding anti-ship missile capability.
If you expect hostile aircraft you'd send a Type 45, if you expect hostile submarines you'd send a Type 23 or a Type 26 once they're commissioned, if you expect to just "be there" and at the worst fire some warning shots at some smugglers or pirates then this is sufficient and can always call for backup.
@@409novaman no you really are missing the point. It's a patrol boat. Which many people can't seem to grasp
Lieutenant sam kerridge asks you to come in his office it could mean somthing else by the sounds of it
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I was beginning to wonder in what way was the ship in any way green, until we actually got to the end part. That is quite a significant reduction I’ve got to say for a naval vessel. Now just applied to the destroyers and aircraft carriers please. That’s not the only thing they should be doing though. Like every future vessel, they also have to consider how the actual ship is constructed.
The aircraft carriers should have been nuclear powered.
@@EvidensInsania No, they shoudln't. We don't really have the budget to afford two nuclear carriers, and having just one, as France has shown, is a massive let down for a country's naval capability.
@@kimjonglongdong3158 If money is your primary concern then realise that while more expensive to build initially the long term costs of nuclear power are far less than conventional fuel because of the incredible energy density of uranium. This energy density allows nuclear carrier to operate for YEARS at a time without needing to refuel. Obviously this grants them far greater operational flexibility and readiness and eliminates the need for masses of support vessels to keep them fueled. Nuclear power also takes up much less physical space on the ship allowing it to carry more aircraft, aircraft fuel, ammunition, etc.
The decision to go with conventional power was done by penny pinching bureaucrats who are only concerned with their quarterly spreadsheets. Same reason they decided to also cheap out and not have launch assists so only VTOL planes can operate off them. For an island nation like ours and one that should be a top tier military power it's a sorry state of affairs that we skimped so badly on our carrier fleet.
@@EvidensInsania actually your point about cost is mute. While the cost of a nuclear reactor and its fuel is < 50 years worth of fuel, that argument does not take into consideration the incredibly costly process of a midlife refueling, as most naval nuclear reactors need one after 25 years. This, in fact, puts the cost of nuclear propulsion higher than that of conventional fuel.
The same can be said of your point of support vessels. Even if the carriers were nuclear, the 2 T45s, 2 T26/23s and the solid support ships still need fuel (and any foreign warships tagging along too). Not to mention a carrier is pointless if its airwing doesn't have fuel, which again is resuplied multiple times in a deployment from our tankers.
These two points are of course without mentioning that we haven't disposed of a single nuclear submarine to date (iirc), and have no real plan for how to do so in future, along with a massive lack of nuclear technicians needed to install/maintain said systems, with the ones we do have currently being busy with maintaining the Trafalgar, Astute and Vanguard subs, along with building and designing the Last few Astutes and the new dreadnought class. Oh and being bared for many ports in the world for being nuclear powered would be a bad downside for the small benefits it would give.
Edit: I will however agree on the part of CATOBAR vs STOVL systems, mostly. The only reason I don't entirely agree, is because the EMALS system is still (again iirc) having major issues, and I doubt the QE would have been ready as she was on schedule in 2018 if we had gone down that route.
@@kimjonglongdong3158 Obviously a carrier group would still need supply ships but a nuclear carrier makes those logistics easier by eliminating it's massive fuel requirements. And like I said, it can hold more supplies for it's aircraft giving it the potential to operate for longer if there is a break in the supply chain.
But at the end of the day while we obviously won't have the biggest navy I still feel that what we do have should be really top class. If you think the Ford class is too much to aim for then fine, but even the old Nimitz class is superior to the Queen Elizabeth. The desire of politicians to cut costs has resulted in billions being wasted on a substandard flagships for our navy. I mean they don't even have catapults. Easy solution for the proper funding of our national defence would be simply cutting the foreign aid which costs us more each year than the entire QE carrier project cost in it's entirety. Maybe India will have to scale back it's space programme, such a shame.
Wy do they still have a2's
@lazyshit67 gotcha
@lazyshit67 RMC are getting the C8
@lazyshit67 to be fair sailors don't require the latest kit (in that particular area of equipment I mean, fireproof clothing, firefighting equipment and shipboard systems absolutely they should get the best), since they're most of the time using an L85A2 and body armour to mount a watch while standing on deck, they don't have such a requirement for the latest advancements in lightweight gear. As long as it works older stuff is sufficient.
The Marines on the other hand get some sweet new kit cause of their potential for being deployed deep into any environment, arctic, rainforest, desert, so lightweight equipment and rifles suitable for marching long distances make mode sense as a purchase.
Would be great to see some of what the Marines are getting influence the wider equipment procurement for the MoD though.
Decent medical ward just in case there's an outbreak of hangovers from the pubs in Pompey.
Ship like that and can't stop French floaters
Hey guys, you just got killed by a "green" ship, I hope that makes you feel better!!! BYEEEE
What i dont understand is why the royal navy ships don't have big cannons and always have smaller cannons can someone explain why?
This is a small patrol vessel not a frigate.
Don't need them anymore. Missiles are a lot more effective and can be used from much further ranges. The only thing the RN really needs cannons for are smaller boats and piraye craft. Anything smaller isn't worth a missile, anything bigger the cannon is almost worthless.
what's the point of these boats with their only armament being a 20-30 mm gun? even torpedo boats who are 5-10 times smaller have anti air and anti ship missiles like the german Gepard class. not to mention that this boat is the size of a corvette with 2000 tonnes and corvettes are even more capable whereas this just isn't.
@@swunt10 The ship isn't intended to be used for anything other than patrol of UK waters, fishery protection and maybe anti-piracy. It doesn't need harpoon missiles and a CIWS to take on those types of threats.
@@jamiegray6931 then why not buy a smaller and cheaper boat? also why would the navy be used for fishery patrols? isn't that police, border guard, coast guard work?
next time argentinia invade the falklands they have to do that climate neutral
Dilly’s great!!😀A pucka, top, latter-day killick wren/female rating/Jenny/whatever👍🏻⚓️And let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want some hands-on care from her?!! Sick Bay onboard was only for scabs & jabs in my day, a place to be avoided like the plague (pun intended!). But watching this vid, it looks more like a hotel these days....yet another positive change for today’s Royal Navy!👍🏻⚓️
Tats DILMORE scablifter
green sa80 but the rest still need painting....
Why they even have rifle or 🔫?
Where's the CIWS?
It's a patrol boat not a fleet escort
@@cyanoticspore6785 And? Patrol boats can get blown up too...
@@johnratcliffe6438 yes but the areas patrol boats patrol make that much less likely so adding a system such as CIWS would likely be a waste of money.
Anyone know what caliber that Firteee-mill-a-meeetah gun is?
30 mm
He says it better than the Yanks do. they can't even spell properly.
Barrel length is just over 2.4m so its about 80 calibre
A "green" warship! Realy?🤪
You’re kidding.
Too brief I feel.
You like feel longer?
Yes. Interesting stuff. I watch such videos of US Navy and Royal Navy. The latest I watched was on HMS Elizebeth.
They can terrify any potential enemy by warning them they are 'green'
Heaven help us
Inqualab zindabad
This rating is a clown this vessel is 1st to protect and defend and if that does not work it is then to destroy and or kill the enemy, absolutely nothing to do with being green?
Like you could do a better job?
You seem too dim to realise you can protect, defend, destroy and kill and still be less damaging to the environment. they are not mutually exclusive.
However the environment will kill us if we don't change our ways.
Lol what a comical video.
This is a Glock 9mm
hahahahaha
don't understand how that is comical?
Green means slow
HOPE it has a large "brig" there going to need it for French fishermen soon 😂
What brig? A piece of rope and tow them behind and get the message through, these are our waters, Monsewer.
@@demportboy1584 Why would we go wasting a perfectly good length of rope? They've got life jackets on trawlers, haven't they? Just point them in the direction of Calais and send them on their way.
@@JohnSmith-nm8jz Why pretend that we like the French when they hate us, after all we call it the "English Channel" when they leave out the "English"
part of it, so this is why I would give them a wet shirt every time.
Needs better weapons
It’s an offshore patrol vessel, it’s weapons systems are good enough
@@austrolouis124 yeh NO not good they even though about upgrading it to the spec with the 57 bofors and 30/40mms on each side then 8 rack ship missles possibly having a vls just behing the 57 mm
its a patrol vessel not a warship
@@mightvedroppedjury5324 do that and one day it may be sent of to war to die bravely
@@graveperil2169 why has every other opv got more guns
good grief, most dinghies are better armed than this over grown row boat.....
It's called a patrol boat for a reason
Why on earth should green-ness be a specification for a navy ship? Window dressing.
Why are legs required to walk?
Why not? It allows for technological advancements.
@@cymro8902 Save the planet and save on ammunition eh?
@@skulptor you don't always have to be shooting your guns but you'll always need your engine running.
Well it couldn’t hurt you know. Because of natural attitudes among military people, a lot of naval and other war machines are some of the most polluting out there. So it can’t hurt to try and make them greener as well, and it’s always a good credential to have as well around the world. Although frankly I would’ve preferred the idea of a hybrid engine over simply reduced emissions.
'Green' does this mean if the sun isn't shining it stops working...that sort of 'green' how about a wind turbine for good measure, or lithium batteries. Still, at least they've all stopped singing.
No, they've put catalytic converters on like your car.
It's just more environmentally friendly where possibly and practical. Stop being a drama queen.
@@nowtelsematters ...said the drama queen, you clearly don't understand IRONY...you know..the bit about a WARSHIP being environmentally 'friendly'......clearly a soyboy!
@@kronos4136 says the chap who's emotionally distraught over a ship being called 'greener'...
yawn
Probably is soo green that even will put a rainbiw flag in the mast to show the diversity in the Navy.
Dont forget to charge the GREEN Batteries
Nothing interesting here. Move along
A rinky-dinky main gun to go pew pew. The word "PATHETIC" comes to mind.
USCG, JCG, Russian Coast Guard, heck even both the Spanish and Italian OPV's vessels are vastly more capable than that floating piece of junk. But it's "green".
If you're seriously going to defend Britain, they're going to use this silly ship? This will pander to environmentalist wack job and perverted tattooed women.
You need some education big boy
@@Steentje06 You need a real navy.
its not a warship its a offshore patrol vessel it only has to deal with refugees, fishermen and on a bad day pirates
If you really want a green ship then why not put sails on it?
a little patrol vessel..they are making out they are HMS Hood....pathetic
Not fast enough. Not heavily armed. Probably unable to fulfill its claimed roles.
An awesome LGBTQ Diaoria ... etc etc .... What have you got to kill the King's enemies? nothing, because it is all a sham
New Navy taxi for picking up illegal migrants in the channel...