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News Mar 23, 2024 Chapel Refurbishment

From Charles Hayward Graham Platts, (Facilities and Security Manager at Fort Blockhouse) managed to get...

News Mar 23, 2024 Call for Assistance

From Philip Marsden Can you help identify this boat: I found this photo in my...

Dits & Bits Mar 16, 2024 Norman Wood DSM*

I’ve attached some group photos related to my father’s service in submarines (Norman Wood DSM*)....

Dits & Bits Mar 9, 2024 Perisher Poem

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

Dits & Bits Mar 9, 2024 Caught Short

Swiftsure, Don Mitchell in Command, on the way back from America in, I think 1978....

Dits & Bits Mar 1, 2024 The Cold War Battle Way

Their colour black is of the nightNo name is borne upon their skin.They slip slowly...

Dits & Bits Feb 26, 2024 A few memories by an ancient TAS specialist

I have been a Friend of the Museum for years, somewhat as an acknowledgement of...

Dits & Bits Feb 24, 2024 End of an iconically ugly building

The old wardroom in Faslane, long unused and empty has been demolished. Looking at these...

Dits & Bits Feb 17, 2024 A Submariners Lament

Dits & Bits Feb 17, 2024 Sleuth Jolly Roger

This is the original Jolly Roger from HMS Sleuth’s (Lt KH Martin) telling the story...

Dits & Bits Feb 17, 2024 Spy wear

The naval Christmas tradition of the CO swapping places with the most junior rate has...

News Feb 9, 2024 102 Still Going Strong

Michael joined the Royal Navy as a Volunteer Reserve officer in April 1943 and was a...