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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...

Dits & Bits Feb 21, 2025 Secrets of the Deep

This article has been written and submitted by a member – Dr Robert Lyman MBE...

Dits & Bits Feb 16, 2025 The All Round Look

For those interested in more detailed history read the paper in British Submarine Warfare Equipment...

Dits & Bits Feb 16, 2025 Singapore Remembered

Lt.Cdr. Jeremy (Jum) Daniel recently passed away For those readers who were not even a...

Dits & Bits Feb 8, 2025 Around the world for a bottle of Scotch

In ’67 I left my first boat, Auriga, in SM7 & flew back to the...

Dits & Bits Feb 3, 2025 Laid Up

In a corner of a harbour, on the edges of the seaForlorn and dejected, in...

Dits & Bits Jan 31, 2025 The WW2 Allied Submarine Campaign in the Mediterranean

We are grateful to Dan Conley for this excellent summary of the WW2 submarine campaign...