Hello Rupert,

My understanding is that most of the texts do not state clearly one way or the other on how maintenance is done.

Based on my background on maintaining ship's equipment the tasks are broken down into chunks that 1 or two bodies can perform. Many of the USN's newer ships have smaller crews with lots of automation.

The RN's new carrier is highly automated per a documentary that I think was shown on National Geographic.

Tom Rux

> On 10/16/2021 4:41 PM Rupert Boleyn - rupert.boleyn at gmail.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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>
> On 17Oct2021 0308, Thomas RUX - tmr0195 at comcast.net (via tml list) wrote:
> > Howdy Timothy,
> >
> > Various Traveller source material hints at the use of automation and robots designed to assist in doing maintenance. Also during the lay over in port the crew can contract for maintenance support.
> >
> > Back when I was on submarines while tied alongside the tender or a pier in a support facility we had tender personnel assisting us doing maintenance.
> The problem is that this is not mentioned in the texts as being standard
> practice. The texts tell us that the crew perform normal preventative
> maintenance and light repairs, etc., and then once a year the ship is
> put into the hands of the yard for a two week annual maintenance (or the
> crew do it themselves and hate the captain for costing them their two
> weeks of leave) at a significant cost.
>
> TNE had a similar issue in that the maintenance number it had often
> implied that the crew was spending a huge amount of time just keeping
> the ship running, but most of the crew was supposed to be there to do
> other things, like fly the ship. This got a lot worse once you factored
> in wear values - you rapidly got to the point where a ship couldn't be
> maintained. This would've been fine if old ships were treated like
> aeroplanes, with a lot of down time per hour of flight time. However,
> that's not how they were presented as being treated (the ones free
> traders flew, anyway).
>
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