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British Navy Admits "It Was Us, Not The Russians" That Damaged Irish Trawler In April
Back in April, European and US officials were quick to blame "The Russians" when a British fishing trawler's nets became entangled in a submarine. The incident, one of many, was rapidly escalated as further excuse to increase NATO forces across Europe and as evidence of Russia's aggression. There's just one small problem... As The Daily Mail reports, in this case, it wasn't the Russians - The Royal Navy has finally admitted one of its submarines damaged an Irish fishing trawler in April - five months after the Russian vessel was blamed for the incident.
From another incident in April blamed on The Russians, a bit more color from Live Leak:
Angus Macleod, who has fished Scottish waters for more than 30 years, told how crewmembers became alarmed when their nets began to “overtake” his 62-foot trawler, Aquarius.
Speaking to the Sunday Express last night, he said: “We were midway through a trip when the boat started to slow down by around two-thirds of a knot, which can happen when the pots start to collect.
“We started to haul the nets in, and suddenly there was an external force pulling our nets ahead of the boat with some considerable force. This is something we’ve never experienced before. We always have to be ahead of the nets to keep our propeller clear.
"We caught up with them, and we continued hauling, but the nets ran forward again. The starboard net continued to lead out aft. We had to do this several times, and the winches which were hauling in the nets were beginning to strain.”
Mr. Macleod, 46, added: “At the time we just went through what needed to be done to get out of that situation. We had to keep our propeller clear – that’s our main propulsion. But afterwards we sat down as a crew and we discussed what we’d seen. There is little doubt in our minds that this was caused by a submarine.”
But now, as The Daily Mail reports, another incident from April that was blamed on The Russians has now been admitted the fault of The Royal Navy...
The Royal Navy has finally admitted one of its submarines damaged an Irish fishing trawler in April - five months after a Russian vessel was blamed for the incident.
The Karen was towed at 10 knots during the April 15 incident 18 miles from Ardglass on the south-east shore of Northern Ireland and the vessel was left badly damaged, but the crew escaped unharmed.
Nato exercises were held that week in northern Scotland leading to speculation that the alliance's drills may have attracted Russian interest.
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The 60-foot boat's captain Paul Murphy was pictured holding a snapped steel cable on board his boat following the alarming incident.
At the time the Navy said none of its submarines were in the Irish Sea and Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt told Parliament a UK vessel was not responsible.
Now Ms Mordaunt has been forced to make a U-turn and revealed it was in fact a British submarine which snagged the boat.
Once again officials simply lied!
While we doubt any apologies for apportioning blame to the Russians wil be forthcoming, The Daily Mail does note some local politicians demanding justice...
South Down MP Margaret Ritchie said: 'Fishermen must be confident that their vessels will not be damaged by submarine activity and where incidents do take place, the Government will own up to it immediately.
Sinn Fein Stormont Assembly member Chris Hazzard said fishermen deserved to be able to work in an environment where they did not have to worry about submarines sinking their boats as fishing was already a dangerous occupation.
'The British Government and MoD must now explain their actions, if any disciplinary measures will be taken arising out of this incident and how it will avoid similar incidents in the future.'
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Recent 'history' double seasonally adjusted.
<"History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte>
Life is not a lie, unless lies are your life.
There’s an interesting article in today’s WashingtonTimes
Russia is building a drone submarine designed to launch nuclear weapons against U.S. harbors and coastal cities, according to Pentagon officials.
The developmental unmanned underwater vehicle, or UUV, when deployed, will be equipped with megaton-class warheads capable of blowing up key ports used by U.S. nuclear missile submarines, such as Kings Bay, Georgia, and Puget Sound in Washington State…
Looney
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/8/russian-drone-submarine-w...
Assume every story is a lie in the absence of clear proof otherwise. Pravda lives!
Are you surprised? The "Irish potato famine" may have, as in might have, had just a little Queen Mum love attatched....
Thank fuck subs dont patrol gardens
Six months later.
Fucking rotten toothed, paedophile, zionist bearers of boy labias.
Great club soccer teams, though.
Great submarining, Captain.
Getting caught in a trawler's nets.
Somebody just got a desk job in Naval Attache's office of the British Children's Library in South Yemen
What! We don't have a job as a Naval Attache's office in the Non-Existant British Children's Library in South Yemen? By jove, Captain, go forth and establish such! Show initiative. On your own, Lad. Empire, duty and all that rot, what?
And job creation to boot! That broken windows (fishing trawlers) thing really works.
+1 the whole limey sub fleet is probably all dented and shit.
LOL
Both boats. Covered in barnacles where the acoustic tiles fell off years ago. Oy, matey! Look, wif dem tiles alls gones isn't whats sposed happen now, isit?
Maybe it's time to put the "torpedo net cutters" back on subs? I think the Germans were the last to use them on their Type VII and IXs. Could be mistaken.
American Emily Litella foreign policy at its finest.
Rule, Britannia ! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
ahahah
Brits, the fools they be, have been slaves of the Rothschilds for hundreds of years.
In her briefing, did Ms Mordaunt, the Minister for Hen and Cock Welfare (Warfare?), lay out whether any Irish, English or Russian cocks were injured during the sordid naval affair?
Ask Tom Clancey, he knows.
Defamation is a civil matter.
Tort IS.
Good luck Russia...
So next month the Uk (or US) Navy will admit to submarining off Sweden last year. Oops we blamed that on Russia too. And the drought in california was of course caused by Russia as well, just for good measure. Rule the paranoid westerners.
So who in the Back In April are calling it a Russian sub besides ZH?
Todays plane on fire incident caused by Russians as well. This news story brought to you by US GOV and Budweiser
If the captain of the sub was a pedophile the Brits would have waited till he was dead to admit anything.
Today Queen Elizabeth became the longest reigning English monarch and to celebrate that event the Royal Navy decided to confess one of the bazillion lies it has told.
If you add the lies of the Royal Air Force and Army and Prime Minister's office, you'll get an idea of what great hypocrites the English are.
I, for the life of me, cannot understand the fascination about an inbred sect of assholes that think it is their "divine right" to lord over other other humans.... Some of which are MUCH more suited to take their "job"
Long fuck the queen!
I would have made a great monarch.
I had the looks, the stature
But I was late to the audition. ;o(
British assholes, kick them out of office
The Cameron regime shouldn't even be in office.
There is no real democracy in Britain.
The system is one massive fraud.
Cameron hijacked the British government on little more than a third of the popular vote.
UKIP should have 83 seats in the house of Commons.
They were stolen and occupied by Cameron in a system that makes North Korea look democratic.
Cameron is a serial liar, neocon and warmonger.
He has Libyan ad Syrian blood pouring down his arms.
Lying about a submarine is grist in the mill to him.
He lies to the public and planet every day.
Ba**ard.
Caught in the NET of anti-Russian propaganda!
Bawhahahahahahahaha
I am surprised people are surprised, I thought it was clear back then already...