British naval food doesn't look half bad... so we're going to try it out for ourselves
(2021/08/27)
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Boatnotes Ahead of the upcoming second edition of The Register 's Boatnotes series, the crew of Royal Navy warship HMS Severn has shared a glimpse with the wider world of the food served aboard ship – and it really looks rather good.
The River-class offshore patrol vessel is due to be formally re-commissioned back into the Royal Navy after nearly being disposed of in the late 2010s.
Earlier this week her crew used the ship's Twitter account to share details of the food being served aboard the ship. Naval budgets mean the crew must eat three square meals a day for £3.61.
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Despite that limitation, the weekly menu promises delicacies such as beef bourguigon, coconut and lime chicken, and "Hot Diggity Dogs".
Have a look at our weekly menu to see what the chefs knock up for £3.61 per person per day [2]pic.twitter.com/kNnl9ZMszf — HMS Severn (@hmssevern) [3]August 26, 2021
Long-time Reg readers may recall the late, lamented Lester Haines' [4]post-pub nosh neckfiller series. While the budget's probably similar, Lester's culinary creations were more about ease of creation while bladdered rather than feeding hungry sailors at sea.
The magnificent Severn
HMS Severn was originally commissioned into the Royal Navy in 2003. As part of a private finance initiative she was owned by her builders, Vosper Thorneycroft, and leased to the Navy along with her three sister River-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). The Ministry of Defence exercised its option to buy the flotilla of four outright when the five-year lease ended.
[5]What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse
[6]Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans
[7]Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
She was eventually paid off in 2017, though the 2016 vote to leave the European Union meant that government priorities were changing. Although the Navy had acquired four new OPVs (now known as the Batch II River-class), funding was made available to reactivate the Batch I Rivers for coastal patrol duties.
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HMS Severn pictured in 2012. Crown copyright
Reactivating the Batch Is also gave the Navy the opportunity to be a little creative. In a nod to the Navy's Second World War heritage Severn has been repainted in a camouflage scheme last seen on British warships in the 1940s – and she is now part of the newly resurrected Coastal Forces Squadron, another reference to the Second World War [9]naval organisation that performed unglamorous yet vital work.
Severn 's captain, Commander Phil Harper (last seen in these august pages when he was [10]commanding officer of HMS Enterprise in the Arctic ), told [11]telly news station Forces TV earlier this month: "It's trying to hide ships, to make them less easy to see. As opposed to the dazzle scheme, which is really a World War One scheme designed to confuse the enemy through a periscope or a rangefinder about direction of the ship, this is genuinely designed to camouflage; to hide a ship at sea."
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The Register will be joining HMS Severn later this year to see how the Navy trains its new navigators using equipment and techniques ranging from the ancient to the technologically enabled cutting edge of modernity.
London-based Reg readers can see Severn entering the city for her formal (re)commissioning ceremony on Friday. She is scheduled to pass Tower Bridge at about 5.15pm before rafting up alongside HMS Belfast , the Second World War cruiser and museum ship. Those outside London can [13]follow her progress on Marinetraffic, one of many popular ship-tracking websites. ®
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The River-class offshore patrol vessel is due to be formally re-commissioned back into the Royal Navy after nearly being disposed of in the late 2010s.
Earlier this week her crew used the ship's Twitter account to share details of the food being served aboard the ship. Naval budgets mean the crew must eat three square meals a day for £3.61.
[1]
Despite that limitation, the weekly menu promises delicacies such as beef bourguigon, coconut and lime chicken, and "Hot Diggity Dogs".
Have a look at our weekly menu to see what the chefs knock up for £3.61 per person per day [2]pic.twitter.com/kNnl9ZMszf — HMS Severn (@hmssevern) [3]August 26, 2021
Long-time Reg readers may recall the late, lamented Lester Haines' [4]post-pub nosh neckfiller series. While the budget's probably similar, Lester's culinary creations were more about ease of creation while bladdered rather than feeding hungry sailors at sea.
The magnificent Severn
HMS Severn was originally commissioned into the Royal Navy in 2003. As part of a private finance initiative she was owned by her builders, Vosper Thorneycroft, and leased to the Navy along with her three sister River-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs). The Ministry of Defence exercised its option to buy the flotilla of four outright when the five-year lease ended.
[5]What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse
[6]Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans
[7]Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
She was eventually paid off in 2017, though the 2016 vote to leave the European Union meant that government priorities were changing. Although the Navy had acquired four new OPVs (now known as the Batch II River-class), funding was made available to reactivate the Batch I Rivers for coastal patrol duties.
[8]
HMS Severn pictured in 2012. Crown copyright
Reactivating the Batch Is also gave the Navy the opportunity to be a little creative. In a nod to the Navy's Second World War heritage Severn has been repainted in a camouflage scheme last seen on British warships in the 1940s – and she is now part of the newly resurrected Coastal Forces Squadron, another reference to the Second World War [9]naval organisation that performed unglamorous yet vital work.
Severn 's captain, Commander Phil Harper (last seen in these august pages when he was [10]commanding officer of HMS Enterprise in the Arctic ), told [11]telly news station Forces TV earlier this month: "It's trying to hide ships, to make them less easy to see. As opposed to the dazzle scheme, which is really a World War One scheme designed to confuse the enemy through a periscope or a rangefinder about direction of the ship, this is genuinely designed to camouflage; to hide a ship at sea."
[12]
The Register will be joining HMS Severn later this year to see how the Navy trains its new navigators using equipment and techniques ranging from the ancient to the technologically enabled cutting edge of modernity.
London-based Reg readers can see Severn entering the city for her formal (re)commissioning ceremony on Friday. She is scheduled to pass Tower Bridge at about 5.15pm before rafting up alongside HMS Belfast , the Second World War cruiser and museum ship. Those outside London can [13]follow her progress on Marinetraffic, one of many popular ship-tracking websites. ®
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[3] https://twitter.com/hmssevern/status/1430778985332498432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2015/12/30/post_pub_nosh_slideshow/
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I loved the Navy in my teens
Anonymous Coward
I smoked Player's Navy Cut - it was great, especially with a little Nepalese addition.
Re: I loved the Navy in my teens
chivo243
Black Nepalese? Got ya weak in your knees?
Re: I loved the Navy in my teens
sebacoustic
i wish they would let the Afghans export some black resin: while that stuff is strong, it won't make anyone agressive of loopey like those new-fangled weed breeds. And they could surely do with the income, I'd even gladly pay the IRS their due share.
Join The Navy, See The World
The Oncoming Scorn
Exotic places like Lundan.
Re: Join The Navy, See The World
EarthDog
Don't forget the fresh fruit every day. WHich can be in short supply on longer cruises.
Camouflage
The late Sir Peter Scott was camouflage officer in the Royal Navy in World War 2. His camouflage schemes were so effective at hiding ships that they sometimes collided!
"By May 1941, all ships in the Western Approaches (the North Atlantic) were ordered to be painted in Scott's camouflage scheme. The scheme was said to be so effective that several British ships including HMS Broke collided with each other. The effectiveness of Scott's and Thayer's ideas was demonstrated experimentally by the Leamington Camouflage Centre in 1941. Under a cloudy overcast sky, the tests showed that a white ship could approach six miles (9.6 km) closer than a black-painted ship before being seen"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott