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Dits & Bits Jul 7, 2024 Four inch fun

During the confrontation with Indonesia in 1964 it was decided to put the guns back...

Dits & Bits Jul 4, 2024 Perisher Poetry

A ship is attacking, there’s a helo overheadNavigation threatens peril, is the mission dead?Sleep’s another...

News Jun 30, 2024 Down to the Sea in Submarines

Dan Conley’s new book – Down to the Sea in Submarines – has been published...

Dits & Bits Jun 23, 2024 Martin Macpherson Remembered

A page for recollections of Commodore Martin Macpherson OBE From David Parry Martin’s Lament History...

Dits & Bits Jun 19, 2024 BOAT FEVER (Apologies to John Masefield)

I must go down to a boat again, to the quiet of the ocean deep,And...

Dits & Bits Jun 8, 2024 Hong Kong 1938

I found it on the now closed World Naval Ships Forum. The photo was posted...

News Jun 8, 2024 Friends AGM 2024

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED FOR THE 2024 AGM It’s that time of year again and we...

Dits & Bits May 18, 2024 Departure

Bands of braid and golden capsLined the dark Victorian quayTugs bustled off the berthBefore we...

Dits & Bits May 11, 2024 A Submarine Toast

TO THE TUNE OF THE BRITISH GRENADIERS (from an earlier version) Some talk of Sir...

Dits & Bits May 4, 2024 HMS Turbulent Commissioning

One of my contacts is the granddaughter of a sailor who served in the wartime...

News May 4, 2024 HMS Dolphin (1882) bell goes on permanent display in Bath

A bell mounted on two historic brass dolphins from the sloop of war HMS Dolphin...

News May 4, 2024 Caption Competition

Mark Dickens has suggested this photo of him and Paul Robinson taken in HMS Revenge...