No, its not the Imp. November 2018 HNoMS Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian frigate, collided with the tanker Sola TS and sank. Much criticism and many jokes were made on the Norwegian navy following this.
But as it turns, and this has only come to light in the last few days and appears to have been actively suppressed for 4 years now, the duty officer on the bridge was a female US navy officer under training, on a exchange program between the Norwegian and US Navy.
Its one thing that it happened, but this has been rumored for years and the only reason its finally come out is because she has been requested to testify as a witness during court proceedings currently ongoing against the watch chief of Helge Ingstad.
Pussy pass stamped and approved, and a male Norwegian officer is currently getting shafted for a fuckup in part caused by a US navy diversity hire.
My father sometimes telsl a story about a study that he was privy to where a navy tested how many females they could have before everything went to shit.
Their conclusion was that around 30% was the absolute maximum they could afford to keep on a ship.
Don't have a source for it but don't find it to be massively implausible from what I have seen
That seems awfully high, unless their threshold of "went to shit" is keel up.
Pretty much yes but one needs to use a more... Diplomatic wording when a study is gonna be shared across countries.
So the "could afford to keep" is likely a "ship doesn't sink" but worded nicely. And it is the absolute maximum and not the efficient number of females they could have on a warship. No use making a study about that when it's easy to deduce it's zero
US Marines kept excellent figures on injury rates in basic training.
Women have 30X greater rate of medical discharge for hip ligament injuries under load: eg marching with a pack
That is just one kind of injury. All told women are about half as physically capable as men and much (!) more prone to injury under strain.
I'd love to see that study. Do you still have it to hand?
This must mean that it only needs 40% crewmen to run a ship.