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Dits & Bits Apr 11, 2024 The Intruder

Back in the day if you went to the cinema you would see two films for...

Dits & Bits Apr 7, 2024 A Nuclear Submariner’s Alphabet (other versions are available)

A: Is the Array, there’s not many spare B: Is the Bunk Space, there’s many...

Dits & Bits Mar 31, 2024 A Bit of a Life by George Osborne 1982 and Dave Osborne 2023

Review by Barrie Downer Born in 1916 and brought up in Manchester George Osborne joined...

News Mar 29, 2024 New Jolly Roger Exhibit

The new Jolly Roger exhibit at the Museum has been opened in time for the Easter Weekend....

Dits & Bits Mar 29, 2024 Surface Torpedo Sight

In the attached photograph of HMS Spiteful you can see in the conning tower a...

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...