Irish Navy

[Clutch]

Enjoyable...

This is the transcript of the ACTUAL radio conversation between the
British and the Irish, off the coast of Kerry, Oct 98. Radio conversation
released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-98:

IRISH:

Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a
collision.

BRITISH:

Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to
avoid a collision.

IRISH:

Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to
the South to avoid a collision.

BRITISH:

This is the Captain of a British navy ship. I say again,
divert YOUR course.


IRISH: Negative. I say again, You will have to divert YOUR course.

BRITISH:

THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND
LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED
BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT
VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH,
I SAY AGAIN,THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE
UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

IRISH:

We are a lighthouse. Your call.

 

[highwayman]

IRISH:

We are a lighthouse. Your call.

Would not mind sitting in that board on inquiry at the admiralty when the camander of the task force tries to explain the collision with the light house...