HMS Rorqual
“Christopher Napier has done a fine job in recounting his father’s wartime experience of submarine command in the Mediterranean, in shallow waters, heavily patrolled by Axis ships and aircraft.”
Rear Admiral Richard Irwin CB
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Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Guarding a U-boatBelow is a transcription of my father’s May 1945 letter home telling the family about...
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Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Courageous – virtuallyWe are grateful to Ian Whitehouse for sending this link to an excellent VR tour...
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Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Ditty from Down-underMe father was a submariner and often told me when I was just a ladA...
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Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Submarining is a Dangerous Game
Since World War Two ended in forty five,And the world’s submarine fleets, smaller became,Many submariners...
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Dits & Bits Mar 14, 2025 Wedding DayI recently came across a cutting from a Lutterworth newspaper of 1929 regarding Tubby Linton’s...
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Dits & Bits Mar 1, 2025 Families DayThis poem reached us by a very circuitous route; written by Tony Young (in 1974...
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Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Famous LinersUnited States Surface running at night on Auriga (SM7 in Canada) off the US East...
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Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Loco ChargeThought I’d spin you a story about an incident with HMAS Otway languishing in Hawaii in 1975....
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The Royal Navy Submarine Museum.Take a deep dive into the fascinating world of submarines.
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Submarine Book of RemembranceA place to remember all those who have given their lives in the Royal Navy Submarine Service.
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