Talk:HMS Ambuscade (F172)

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Its great to see a pic of Ambers. I had the privillage of serving on her late 1982 to 1984. In that time we did a Gulf Patrol, which was cut short by a major incident in that we collided with the USS Dale while carrying out officer of the watch manneovers. So instead of going to Bangkok we ended up going to Bombay to have our bow replaced. A t-shirt was commissioned in honour of this even call Ambuscade bites yer bum. Does anyone remember this??? A great ship and one of the best ships company i have served with.

Ex-Steward Tracey(Dick)

Reference: www.ambuscade.org.uk gives details of above Sidney Bung 20:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there Dick

I served on Ambers from early '82, just before Falklands to just after the Gulf Patrol in '83 so remember well the incident with the Dale. I was in the 4.5 Magazine when we hit!!! I was probably in the same mess as you as there were a few of us "greenies" in with you guys. Tim Barker (ex LWEM(O))

Performance

In 1979 just as Ambuscade was departing for a 6 month deployment to the west coast of USA when one of the Olympus main engines went on fire. She returned to Devonport, where the complete gas turbine unit was removed and replaced in just 24 hours. This was followed by a full power trial between Devonport and Brest (France) where speeds of 36 knots were achieved in a near gale with a following sea.

Later during the 1979 Deployment, Ambuscade was instructed to carry out a performance demonstration to members of the Mexican Navy off Acapulco. She managed 0 to 30 knots in less than 2 minutes and an emergency stop from 30 knots in just 30 seconds. Ambuscade truly was an ocean greyhound, but suffered problems where the aluminium superstructure joined the steel hull.

Bungy Williams (MEM) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zincanodepugs (talk • contribs) 21:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC).