Museum Update

Visitors are once again enjoying the sights and sounds of the Submarine Museum. The staff have not been idle during the lockdown with much maintenance and many enhancements carried out.

  • The R Class radar mast now in the Silent and Secret Exhibition
  • The R Class radar mast
  • Buckton Chain Test Machine
  • New interpretation panels
  • Visitors!!

And in case you are wondering the Buckton Chain Testing Machine is a 200 ton tensile machine delivered secondhand to Vickers in 1901 to provide testing capabilities for HOLLAND 1 and then remained in use up to ASTUTE’s build.

Another improvement to the galleries at the Submarine Museum. A missile inspection door from a Resolution Class (Polaris) Submarine has gone on display in the Silent & Secret exhibition above the model of the missile tubes. With thanks to Ian Clark Restoration on an excellent job.

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