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airgunner
PostPosted: 01 Mar 2010, 10:24 
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Someone on the forum mentioned a Strikecraft should be preserved before all are lost.

Is this practical?
Which one?
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Toddribault
PostPosted: 02 Mar 2010, 03:47 
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I believe that one is already preserved and on display. I remember an old photo of one beside a smaller craft.
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Kremlin
PostPosted: 02 Mar 2010, 10:06 
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I don't think that there is already a preserved strikecraft. Here is the current breakdown of hulls:

P1561 - SAS Jan Smuts - scrapped & cut up. - 2004
P1562 - SAS Shaka (ex-PW Botha) - sunk 22 April 2005 by exocet from SAS Amatola.
P1563 - SAS Adam Kok (ex-Frederic Creswell) - seen 6th March 2010 - Stored
P1564 - SAS Sekhukhuni (ex-Jim Fouché) - sunk on 20 Sep 2004 during a 76mm firing exercise. ??
P1565 - SAS Isaac Dyobha (ex-Frans Erasmus) - seen 6th March 2010 - Active
P1566 - SAS Rene Sethren (ex-Oswald Pirow) - seen 6th March 2010 - Stored - to be sunk EX-GOOD HOPE IV
P1567 - SAS Galeshewe (ex-Hendrik Mentz) - seen 6th March 2010 - Active
P1568 - SAS Job Maseko (ex-Kobie Coetsee) - Sold for scrap 2008
P1569 - SAS Makhanda (ex-Magnus Malan) - seen 6th March 2010 - Reserve - Stored

As at 6th March 2010, there are two active hulls in the water (P1565 & P1567), one boat in reserve (P1569), and two stored hulls (P1563 & P1566). The stored ones are in a stripped down & rusted state.

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AllanRoy
PostPosted: 02 Mar 2010, 10:29 
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I have found P1568 - SAS Job Maseko (ex-Kobie Coetsee) it is now MNS Maputo in the Mozambique navy

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The Marinha de Mocambique is also respectably equipped, given Mozambique's present condition, with four missile-armed fast attack craft and two patrol-configured Mi-8s. Its entire strength is part of the joint Strathdonian/Mozambican coastal boat squadron, based out of Quelimane. Three of the FACs are rather old Osa-II vessels, left over from the 1980s and refurbished by Strathdonian boatbuilders. One of their number, MNS Nampula, is equipped with the BAe Sea Eagle while the other two carry Sea Skua missiles. MNS Maputo, formerly SAS Job Maseko, was recently delivered to Quelimane and is the most powerful of the MdM's vessels. The two Mi-8s, previously in Forca Aerea employ, have been formed into No.1 Navy Squadron and are equipped with Elta EL/M-2022A surface search radars for patrol tasks in the Mozambique Channel. They can be fitted with Sea Skua ASMs, but are usually unarmed. No.11 squadron of the FA also flies in support of the Coastal Boat Squadron, with its two C-212-200 maritime patrol aircraft.


found the info here
http://forums.joltonline.com/showthread.php?502487-The-Commonwealth-of-Mozambique-(AMW)
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micfradus
PostPosted: 02 Mar 2010, 10:36 
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wow, good job. =D>
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Kremlin
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Whoooohoooo!!! MAGIC stuff Allan :smt023 All hulls are now accounted for.

This is a indeed a great bit of internet hunting on your part !! =D> =D> =D> =D>

I'll edit the list now :D

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airgunner
PostPosted: 02 Mar 2010, 16:28 
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How about P1565 as a candidate for preservation then? I will check its condition on Sunday.
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Roger the Dodger
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@Allanroy - I really hate to rain on your parade but the website you quote is a gaming site.
The information is thus highly suspect, not reliable at all. :^o
It may be true but without verification we have no way of knowing.
I'm applying my "black belt Google-fu" to the question right now so watch this space...
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Roger the Dodger
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The only hit I got was the same page, so I had a brainwave and sent an e-mail to the Navy's PR officer asking what happened to the ship. Sad to think that worms will get to eat such a brain someday... #-o
I hope I get a positive reply soon.
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Biglenny
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Not much of that link makes much sense. U-Darter equiped Impala and IAR-99's?
It seems more of "One day I have a dream" list!!!

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AllanRoy
PostPosted: 04 Mar 2010, 15:59 
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yes it does appear to have been made up, the search continues
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Kremlin
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Bugger .. kids game this .. climbed a ladder to advance & now got eaten by a snake .. back down to the starting point .. :lol: :lol:

The search continues ... the truth is out there !!

Will re-edit P1568 again ...

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Kremlin
PostPosted: 04 Mar 2010, 19:32 
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Roger the Dodger wrote:
The only hit I got was the same page, so I had a brainwave and sent an e-mail to the Navy's PR officer asking what happened to the ship. Sad to think that worms will get to eat such a brain someday... #-o
Nobody gets out of this life alive ... resistance is futile .. assimilation by worms is inevitable :lol: :lol:

I'm also going to ask everybody I see in uniform tomorrow, if they know anything about P1568 ..

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Kremlin
PostPosted: 07 Mar 2010, 08:53 
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Ok, the strikecraft hull listing is now complete.

Iniside one of the static display hangars, I met R Adm. Arnè Söderlund. I asked him about the fate of P1568 ? He has with R Adm. Bennet, co-authored a book titled "South Africa's Navy" & his answer was ".. her fate is in the book" I reckoned if he shows me the fate of P1568 as it appears in the book, I will buy a copy ... so I ended up buying an autographed copy :lol:

It turns out he had spent many a year with the strikecraft, having being operations officer aboard P1562, & later the first officer commanding of P1566.

P1568 - SAS Job Maseko (ex-Kobie Coetsee) - commissioned 11 Feb 1983, Sold for Scrap - 2008.

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Roger the Dodger
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Excellent work Kremlin! \:D/

Is the book really worth buying? I can't find it on Kalahari - what is the ISBN?
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