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Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 H31 – a Letter Home

I thought you might be interested in this letter that came my way recently thanks...

Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 A Musical Sunset in WARSPITE

It came to pass that in April 1940,  I was born next to the Royal...

Dits & Bits Apr 4, 2025 Familygrams

It occurred to me that it might be interesting/amusing to start a thread on memorable...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Guarding a U-boat

Below is a transcription of my father’s May 1945 letter home telling the family about...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Courageous – virtually

We are grateful to Ian Whitehouse for sending this link to an excellent VR tour...

Dits & Bits Mar 28, 2025 Ditty from Down-under

Me father was a submariner and often told me when I was just a ladA...

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...

Dits & Bits Mar 14, 2025 Wedding Day

I recently came across a cutting from a Lutterworth newspaper of 1929 regarding Tubby Linton’s...

Dits & Bits Mar 1, 2025 Families Day

This poem reached us by a very circuitous route; written by Tony Young (in 1974...

Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Famous Liners

United States Surface running at night on Auriga (SM7 in Canada) off the US East...

Dits & Bits Feb 28, 2025 Loco Charge

Thought I’d spin you a story about an incident with HMAS Otway languishing in Hawaii in 1975....

News Feb 21, 2025 Memorial Service at the National Memorial Arboretum 2025

 We Remember Submariners and The Submarine Family will be hosting an Anniversary service at the...