oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
A few week's ago the Gtrace 1, an enormous ultra large crude carrier owned by Iran entered Gibraltar's waters and anchored to take on 'spares and repairs'.
The US government asked the Brit government to arrest Grace 1 because it believed that she was carrying a cargo of crude oil to a Syrian refinery. For some reason the Brits sent in the Royal Marines to arrest Grace 1.
Soon after this Iran seized a Stena-Line Brit tanker passing through the Straights of Hormuz and arrested her, taking her North in to Iranian waters.
Soon after this I watched President Trump on a BBC Television interview mention something about we Brits would need to look after our own shipping, but that maybe a convoy system could be arranged. Well..... that got me to wondering just how long we would hold Grace 1, and whether we would ever get involved in foreign ships for the US government in the immediate future. And how could Britain hope to secure the release of the Stena Line tanker held in Iran?
A couple of days ago the Attorney General of Gibraltar decided that Grace 1 was a good ship, an honest ship, a decent ship, with no bad intentions at all, and released her to sail where she would. At this the US government made it clear that it would arrest the Grace 1 as soon as possible!
And so, at this time, the Grace 1 is remaining in Gibraltar while she carries out that 'spares and repairs' programme. Of course! And at this time her crew are preparing her for the race of her life!
She is already changing her name to Adrian Darya 1, and because journalists have shouted this fact to the world already I wouild expect that she will be changing it again. And one dark night, in foul weather and with storms blowing, she will need to take her IMPOSSIBLE chance, for she is one of biggest ships in the World and rather hard to hide in this age of satellite observation et al.
I wonder if her 'run' could be as exciting as little HMS Amethyst's out of the Yangtse River when Chairman Mao tried to detain her? Or must she give up, or be self-destructed like the Graf Spey in the River Plate?
And that, folks, is where the situation is not interesting, or exciting, or just newsworthy, because the Indian skipper has already requested a new Iranian crew so that his can be released from service on the Grace1 and any new Iranian crew could very well be hot blooded future national heroes.
If cornered by any offensive forces, could the Grace 1 be scuttled? Could she become a rather large incendiary bomb?
Should the US back off and leave Grace 1 to sail clear? I don't think this will end well.
The US government asked the Brit government to arrest Grace 1 because it believed that she was carrying a cargo of crude oil to a Syrian refinery. For some reason the Brits sent in the Royal Marines to arrest Grace 1.
Soon after this Iran seized a Stena-Line Brit tanker passing through the Straights of Hormuz and arrested her, taking her North in to Iranian waters.
Soon after this I watched President Trump on a BBC Television interview mention something about we Brits would need to look after our own shipping, but that maybe a convoy system could be arranged. Well..... that got me to wondering just how long we would hold Grace 1, and whether we would ever get involved in foreign ships for the US government in the immediate future. And how could Britain hope to secure the release of the Stena Line tanker held in Iran?
A couple of days ago the Attorney General of Gibraltar decided that Grace 1 was a good ship, an honest ship, a decent ship, with no bad intentions at all, and released her to sail where she would. At this the US government made it clear that it would arrest the Grace 1 as soon as possible!
And so, at this time, the Grace 1 is remaining in Gibraltar while she carries out that 'spares and repairs' programme. Of course! And at this time her crew are preparing her for the race of her life!
She is already changing her name to Adrian Darya 1, and because journalists have shouted this fact to the world already I wouild expect that she will be changing it again. And one dark night, in foul weather and with storms blowing, she will need to take her IMPOSSIBLE chance, for she is one of biggest ships in the World and rather hard to hide in this age of satellite observation et al.
I wonder if her 'run' could be as exciting as little HMS Amethyst's out of the Yangtse River when Chairman Mao tried to detain her? Or must she give up, or be self-destructed like the Graf Spey in the River Plate?
And that, folks, is where the situation is not interesting, or exciting, or just newsworthy, because the Indian skipper has already requested a new Iranian crew so that his can be released from service on the Grace1 and any new Iranian crew could very well be hot blooded future national heroes.
If cornered by any offensive forces, could the Grace 1 be scuttled? Could she become a rather large incendiary bomb?
Should the US back off and leave Grace 1 to sail clear? I don't think this will end well.
