How one Royal Navy officer helped return stricken ship to action



The fortunes of one of the Royal Navy’s most powerful warships have been turned around by the actions of an officer.

Lieutenant Commander Annabel Roberts has scooped the Most Collaborative Award in this year’s Women in Defence Awards for her work returning HMS Dauntless to action following a catalogue of repair delays.

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36 thoughts on “How one Royal Navy officer helped return stricken ship to action”

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  2. Good for her! However let down by this video and interviewing! What did she actually do? What department is she? This video makes it out like all she did was convene a meeting when I’m sure it was an awful lot more than just that.

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  3. Excellent leadership skills and congratulations on a well deserved award. Keep kicking them up the bum like that and it wont be long before your own command comes your way. 😊

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  5. No mean feat to get everyone on the same page and headed in the same direction, well done to her, now here is the big but… she has the drive to do her job, that is what she is paid to do, my question is, what the hell were her predecessors doing, certainly not their jobs. I see some people's careers coming to a screeching halt or perhaps out of the RN. I think that there was more going on in the background than what this video program scope allows.

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  6. Well done, about time these T45’s got this Power Improvement Plan sorted glad to see HMS Dauntless hopefully operational next year she has spent far too much time in Dry dock.

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  7. I have reported into women in many non-military career positions and without exception they have ranged from very good to brilliant at their jobs. Now retired I still happily "report" into a woman and have done for the last 32 years, "that's been fun" as Eddie Izzard would say.

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  8. Maybe if it was built properly in the first place we would not need more tax payers money getting wasted MOD need there budget cut for every mistake they make.

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  9. A lot of tosh. She would have been the refit coordinating officer (because there is no job related work for the Ops officer while the ship is in refit. Her job would have been to organise the meeting and update the plan as a result of the decisions made by the ‘ technicals’ during the meeting. This award is a PR exercise blowing smoke up her ****.

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  10. Brilliant work but completely sexist award. These ships should never have been delivered or paid for until these systems worked. Did the original spec include non working power plants?

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  11. She did a great job and deserves to be recognised for her work, let's hope it's not just because she is a woman as this degrades he achievement. As an old merchant marine engineer the navy has always been the but of jokes when it comes to incompetent maintenance management so anyone in navy who shows ability needs to be awarded the respect and given more responsibility to fix the system and waist of money.

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  12. Load bull these ships were destined to have the propulsion systems overhauled years ago she had nothing to do with these changes being completed, been on these donkeys for ten years now waste of tax payers money although ile keep taking it ,,work 4 paid 12 ,,,love it …..

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