HMS Astute grounded

[wellinghall]

"Nuclear submarine 'grounded on rocks' off Skye"

"Royal Navy submarine HMS Astute has got into difficulty off Skye, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11605365

Comments

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Didn't this happen last time we built a new lot of subs, too?

(In fact it turns out that the BBC article mentions HMS Trafalgar in 2002. Don't the navy have, you know, charts or something for their training grounds?)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_submarine_accidents

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed that only five of the K-series subs qualify, given the pretty appalling things that happened to most of them.