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News May 25, 2025 Annual Service at the Submariner Memorial

This year’s service at the Submariner Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum was very well...

News May 25, 2025 Submarine Museum in Turkey

A Friends RNSM committee member reports a visit to a submarine museum exhibit which opened...

News May 25, 2025 HMS STERLET remembered

HMS STERLET was noted overdue on 27 April 1940 and subsequently reported as lost with...

Dits & Bits May 23, 2025 Perisher Attack

Start the watch, begin the attack,Weeks of training, you have the knack.Hull-down, masts against the...

News May 1, 2025 Malta George Cross Commemoration

On 12 April Friends RNSM Committee Member Francis Dickinson attended the George Cross Island Association...

Dits & Bits May 1, 2025 Missing Jolly Roger

In 1988 the surviving son of Cdr Tubby Linton VC decided to auction the Linton...

Dits & Bits May 1, 2025 Douglas Hotel and Perisher

I imagine that the community might be interested to see this PDF of the Perisher...

Dits & Bits Apr 25, 2025 Warspite Fire – Cdr Tim Cannon QGM RN

We normally only post a single obituary about an individual and Commander Tim Cannon QGM...

Dits & Bits Apr 25, 2025 Dhobeying

If there is one thing that worries me daily,It’s how long people take to shower.To...

Dits & Bits Apr 25, 2025 Linton Portrait

Recently Robbie Alexander sent me a photograph of a photo that belonged to his late...

Dits & Bits Apr 10, 2025 Early Submariners – Commander Reynolds Sharp

Ed: Little is known about the very first submariners so we are indebted to Ian...

Dits & Bits Apr 10, 2025 ORACLE TALES – And a trip to nowhere…..

From time to time I just write a few reminiscences  – basically for my own...