News Feb 4, 2026 Call for Assistance – Venice

Can anyone help a member identify this lucky boat visiting Venice in the 1950s?

Dits & Bits Feb 4, 2026 Depot Ships

A post about boats rafted up at Dolphin back in the days when we both...

News Feb 4, 2026 Wingfield at War – a review

We are grateful for this review by Robin Knight which was written back in 2016....

Dits & Bits Jan 29, 2026 There’s a U-boat in the bay

[Ed: Sometimes stories come to us unexpectedly. A query from a travel writer via our...

Dits & Bits Jan 22, 2026 Polaris – the Mission

[Ed: We already have the formal brochure introducing Polaris to submariners and their families joining...

Dits & Bits Jan 17, 2026 A Sailor of Austria

[Ed: I wrote of how much enjoyed this novel which contains a few mentions of...

Dits & Bits Jan 11, 2026 Totem and Dakar

The article below appeared in the January edition of Ships Monthly. I have the editor’s...

Dits & Bits Dec 31, 2025 A chicken called Fang

I left the submarine service in 1975 and had no experience in the Polaris fleet....

Dits & Bits Dec 31, 2025 White poser

I was walking through the Gosport War Memorial Hospital the other day looking at all...

Dits & Bits Dec 19, 2025 Alliance in Ukraine

In March 2022 a young man from Deddington, Oxfordshire, my home village, decided to borrow...

Dits & Bits Dec 13, 2025 HMS E1 and E9 in the Baltic

The successful entries of HMS E1 (Laurence) and E9 (Horton) into the Baltic in October...

Dits & Bits Nov 27, 2025 Pearson’s Magazine 1899

While digging through the boxes of old books I found a couple of copies of...