Leadership Quotes

[davidbfpo]

Earlier this year I posted a thread in 'Trump's Navy' after the Wavell Room, a UK blogsite published two articles on leadership at sea and today I found the third article had been published.

The author is a now a ret'd RN Captain, who was in temporary command of the Antarctic patrol ship, HMS Endurance had an accident and the Officer in Charge (not the Captain who was on Xmas leave). NatGeo's brief description:

Heading to Chile to celebrate Christmas, catastrophe strikes when the ship’s engine room is flooded with seawater. Floating without power, the Endurance is dangerously close to capsizing.

Originally a friend forwarded the first article on this accident and it is a grim reading in places. It appears that those who ordered the ship to sea will avoid any repercussions. Now it is evident those responsible for the refit at a UK dockyard evaded responsibility.

There was a National Geographic documentary on their patrol, which in early 2019 was not identified and the RN appeared to block links to it (explained in part 2). It is available on their website; I assume you need to pay, as only very short clips are available:http://www.natgeotv.com/int/ice-patrol/about

Articles:
1. https://wavellroom.com/2018/12/16/ma...hms-endurance/
2. https://wavellroom.com/2019/01/05/ma...-2-priorities/
3. https://wavellroom.com/2019/07/23/ma...sed-the-flood/

I suspect many of the lessons here are found on land and just maybe in the USN today.