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Don Cleavin – Other explosions

Ian Moore – My Sea Dad, Robbie Robinson

Ian Moore – Incident with Russian sub – Part 2

Ian Moore – The smell of diesel

David White – Disproportionate importance of food

Colin Hamilton – No window for the Met Officer on Ark Royal

Don Cleavin – First time on board

Ian Moore – Ear protection

David White – Meeting and working with Ted Briggs, one of the three survivors of HMS Hood

Ian Moore – Popped eardrums at SETT

Colin Clarke – The distance sonar can hear things in the water

Ron Gordon – 50 years undetected

Jim Perks – The black training Dolphins

Don Cleavin – How the diesel engine worked

Ian Moore – The different ranks in the Submarine Service

Andy Dinsdale – Gosport pubs: G & D and Emma’s

David White – Diesels had people sleeping were others were eating right on top of each other

Colin Hamilton – FOS slept on racks of torpedoes

Ron Gordon – SPAG – How you join and how they work

Jim Perks – Introduction of the Black Caps

Ron Gordon – What happens when you’re not on patrol

Andy Dinsdale – Catching the Dolphins in his teeth

Midge Ure – How the different shifts work for and aft

David White – Fond memories of Gosport

Colin Clarke – Nickname

Ian Moore – One experience of claustrophobia

Ian Moore – Tommy Gould released unexploded bomb under casing

Chris Groves – Used to be different officer training for diesel and nuclear

Brian Wood – Judging where you are by the temperature of the sea water

Chris Groves – Example of someone not making it through Perisher

Ron Wright – Joining the Navy

Don Cleavin – Living quarters in Gosport

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