Steam specialists, Tiger reactivation and HMS Bristol

Would a Tiger conversion lack steam specialists in 2000, and did HMS Bristol face that problem in the Falklands War?

Steam expertise was still available in 2000. In 1982 Bristol already had an operating crew; finding additional specialists for reactivated Tigers was a separate problem.

The objection that everyone familiar with steam machinery has retired is immediately qualified when the panel recalls that the proposed refit takes place in 2000. Steam knowledge still existed then, including within the nuclear submarine service. A follow-up asks whether a shortage had affected HMS Bristol during the Falklands War. The correction is that Bristol was already in regular service with a crew. The personnel problem concerned adding reactivated Tigers while Bristol and other commitments were already using the available specialists.