Thought you guys might be interested in some pics of the vessels bought to replace LÉ Orla and LÉ Ciara.
Both looking pretty good with a fresh coat of paint all over. Main and auxiliary engines overhauled, rudders and propellors overhauled and freshly painted decks.
Where’s the boom boom sticks?
Hon the lads
Why new Zealand? Was it just because they happened to have them for sale or is there more reasoning behind it?
Let’s hope they deliver
Pukaki sounds like bukaki with poo
Great to see Ireland remilitarising itself, slowly but surely.
Fuck sake, can’t we buy anything properly in this country?
All of these ships will be upside down!
That a Phalanx onboard? We getting to keep that?!!
How long will the voyage take from NZ to IRE?
Bigger than I had thought from other pictures!
I wonder what the names will end up as.
She’s a good looking boat! How big is she and what’s her draft?
While I welcome them and wish fair sailing to all who sail in them they represent a failure.
We’re buying these two ships to cover a capability gap and because they require smaller crews to operate.
Ciara and Órla were inshore patrol vessels. They are for getting close in to monitor fishing fleets just off the coast. The ex NZ vessels will be able to do this job with less crew.
However the original plan set out by the defence forces was to replace Ciara and Órla with more capable vessels that could do the inshore role and take on the counter IED and counter mine warfare capability as well as facilities to operate divers and underwater remote vehicles.
Like a lot of defence plans nothing was done by the Department of Defence and Department of Finance to progress it. The two old ships had to be decommissioned in 2022 along with the Eithne without replacements even having plans drawn up let alone ready to be replaced.
On top of that the Naval Service is severely under strength due to the retention crisis and cannot crew all its ships, hence the need for these inshore patrol vessels with smaller crew.
It’s not progress, it’s barely standing still.
Should be renamed Bukaki when all the seamen are on deck.
Is that an actual CWIS?
My brother Sylvest on his way to sink it with a punch
Did they bought sailors as well or bout only?
Cool! They got a new tugboat!
bukake
Interesting that they’d buy them from NZ rather than the US or England where I’d think they’d be cheaper
Are these gunna keep the Vikings away?
Please rename them!
Can anybody explain the names? Are the Irish or NZ? They sound Māori? Not that I have an issue if it is, just curious.
Ready to give sternly worded warnings to those that come into our territories
Is that a CIWS I see!? Whilst I doubt it’ll ever be used for it’s intended purpose it would be a hellish weapon for surface ships to face
Did they come with a crew?
Why can’t we make our own Irish boats?
I’d have sworn they would have been from Latvia and not New Zealand with just funny sounding names
Are they keeping those shite names or will they be changed to match the Irish navy naming convention?
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Thought you guys might be interested in some pics of the vessels bought to replace LÉ Orla and LÉ Ciara.
Both looking pretty good with a fresh coat of paint all over. Main and auxiliary engines overhauled, rudders and propellors overhauled and freshly painted decks.
Where’s the boom boom sticks?
Hon the lads
Why new Zealand? Was it just because they happened to have them for sale or is there more reasoning behind it?
Let’s hope they deliver
Pukaki sounds like bukaki with poo
Great to see Ireland remilitarising itself, slowly but surely.
Fuck sake, can’t we buy anything properly in this country?
All of these ships will be upside down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
That a Phalanx onboard? We getting to keep that?!!
How long will the voyage take from NZ to IRE?
Bigger than I had thought from other pictures!
I wonder what the names will end up as.
She’s a good looking boat! How big is she and what’s her draft?
While I welcome them and wish fair sailing to all who sail in them they represent a failure.
We’re buying these two ships to cover a capability gap and because they require smaller crews to operate.
Ciara and Órla were inshore patrol vessels. They are for getting close in to monitor fishing fleets just off the coast. The ex NZ vessels will be able to do this job with less crew.
However the original plan set out by the defence forces was to replace Ciara and Órla with more capable vessels that could do the inshore role and take on the counter IED and counter mine warfare capability as well as facilities to operate divers and underwater remote vehicles.
Like a lot of defence plans nothing was done by the Department of Defence and Department of Finance to progress it. The two old ships had to be decommissioned in 2022 along with the Eithne without replacements even having plans drawn up let alone ready to be replaced.
On top of that the Naval Service is severely under strength due to the retention crisis and cannot crew all its ships, hence the need for these inshore patrol vessels with smaller crew.
It’s not progress, it’s barely standing still.
Should be renamed Bukaki when all the seamen are on deck.
Is that an actual CWIS?
My brother Sylvest on his way to sink it with a punch
Did they bought sailors as well or bout only?
Cool! They got a new tugboat!
bukake
Interesting that they’d buy them from NZ rather than the US or England where I’d think they’d be cheaper
Are these gunna keep the Vikings away?
Please rename them!
Can anybody explain the names? Are the Irish or NZ? They sound Māori? Not that I have an issue if it is, just curious.
Ready to give sternly worded warnings to those that come into our territories
Is that a CIWS I see!? Whilst I doubt it’ll ever be used for it’s intended purpose it would be a hellish weapon for surface ships to face
Did they come with a crew?
Why can’t we make our own Irish boats?
I’d have sworn they would have been from Latvia and not New Zealand with just funny sounding names
Are they keeping those shite names or will they be changed to match the Irish navy naming convention?
Can we keep the names? Those are good names