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News Jan 4, 2025 Submarine Book of Remembrance – Plaque update

Regular visitors will know that Friends are running a project to link submarine memorials around...

Dits & Bits Jan 4, 2025 Crabs

I was the SOO Gib from 12/66 till 12/68.  The problems with Spain had restarted...

Dits & Bits Dec 20, 2024 Patrol Over

The Mull o’Kintyre is our landfall,And we are homeward bound,Our tiring long weeks are now...

Dits & Bits Dec 14, 2024 Uniform at Sea

 Now listen here you Dabtoes[i]And listen very wellIn your roll neck sweaterYou looked pretty swellBut...

Dits & Bits Dec 6, 2024 Shiphandling

The third hand was once authorised,To move the boat unsupervised.Open legs, or cross the harbour,Trot...

News Dec 6, 2024 Update from Down-under

From Thor Lund I attach a copy of Sandy Freeleagus’s bookshop Catalogue. It’s got some...

Dits & Bits Nov 29, 2024 Pan’s People

Those members old enough to have accumulated a little ballast may recall with some fondness...

Dits & Bits Nov 22, 2024 A ‘Collective Noun’ of WEO’s

I was going through some old photos and found the attached.  It was taken in 1987...

Dits & Bits Nov 15, 2024 Submarine Operations – TLAM

As Doug Littlejohns related in the previous Operations piece it was the RN expertise in...

Dits & Bits Nov 15, 2024 Waiting for a Nimrod

Oh Nimrod Oh Nimrod, won’t you be mine,I’ve been waiting out here, one hell of...

Dits & Bits Nov 8, 2024 Cold War Down the Hole

Since the earliest days of submarine operations their Command and Control (C2) has posed special...

News Nov 8, 2024 WW2 HMS Triumph Commemoration Events

By Francis Dickinson In June this year families of those lost in the WW2 HMS...