US Navy vs British Navy

[Mako Mark]

The following is the transcript of an actual radio conversation in October 1995, between a US Navy ship and The British authorities, off the Scottish North coast. The transcript was released by the MoD on 10/10/95.

BRITISH : Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.
U.S. NAVY : Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
BRITISH : Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
U.S. NAVY : This is the Captain of US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
BRITISH : Negative. I say again. You will have to divert your course.
U.S. NAVY : THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN. THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. THAT'S 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

BRITISH : We are a lighthouse. Your call.

 

[wstein]

Doh!

 

[cdiver2]

The following is the transcript of an actual radio conversation in October 1995, between a US Navy ship and The British authorities, off the Scottish North coast. The transcript was released by the MoD on 10/10/95.

BRITISH : Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.
U.S. NAVY : Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
BRITISH : Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
U.S. NAVY : This is the Captain of US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
BRITISH : Negative. I say again. You will have to divert your course.
U.S. NAVY : THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN. THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH. THAT'S 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

BRITISH : We are a lighthouse. Your call.

I have a video of this on the computer but don't know how to attach it to a post.
Very funny.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Attach it as a file.

 

[emtdan]

I feel like that might have been the carrier Bush was on, and that is him talking, cuz only he would be that stupid!!

 

[sb_diver]

I heard the same joke but with the canadians

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

 

[outlawaggie]

I feel like that might have been the carrier Bush was on, and that is him talking, cuz only he would be that stupid!!

yeah Kerry would have been MUCH better. He would have voted for it before he voted against it. just give him a minute and he'll change his mind. leave politics off the board.

 

[H2Andy]

yeah, it's an old joke... i doubt it ever happened

because, you know, aircraft carriers and their escorts have radar and such... so... i doubt they would mistake a lighthosue for a ship (the ship ISN'T MOVING, SIR!!
IT JUST SITS THERE??!! Let's ask it to change its course
anyway...)

good joke, though

 

[Charlie99]

yeah, it's an old joke... i doubt it ever happened

Really old. I first remember hearing a version of it in 1972 while at USN surface warfare school.

We had just reviewed a late 1930's incident where several destroyers in formation ran aground (So. Calif. IIRC) after using the reciprocal bearing in plotting a radio direction finding fix, and we wondered if that incident was the little kernel of truth in the story.

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What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale (or a fish story, or a dive story)?

The fairy tale starts of "once upon a time", the sea tale starts "this is no sh*t", but other than that the're pretty much alike

 

[RIDIVER501]

Old and actually took place between a warship and lighthouse on the west coast of the US. SO it was a US to US incident.