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Dive straight in and have a listen to more than 400 interesting snippets from the fascinating lives of our interviewees to learn about how life in the Submarine Service was. They are generally a couple of minutes long and we have hundreds of them for you to enjoy. Just tap/click to read/listen.

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SETT Diving tank

Chris Groves – Why it was decided to close SETT

Opening of SMERAS - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Being promoted to DACOS Ops

General submarine composite #7

Don Cleavin – Part Three Examination

Escape training & SETT composite #5

Colin Clarke – Sadness of the state of disrepair

General submarine composite #34

Ami Burns – ‘Bin bags’ and ‘dabbers’

Food & Drink composite #4

Ron Gordon – Importance of food

Weapons on HMS Alliance

Ron Gordon – 50 years undetected

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) 1986 - Neg 11,537

Andy Dinsdale – What happened at Dolphin is an unknown to most people in Gosport

1093 Gosport Town Centre Ferry Gardens & Bus Station Showing new ferry terminal but no Marina 1985 - Gosport Society

Lesley Ure – Growing up in Gosport

Colin Hamilton Testing for carbon dioxide on board HMSM Renoun port crew 1970

Colin Hamilton – Shutting down a nuclear reactor

HMS Otus on return from Gulf

Lesley Ure – Adjusting to the return of your submariner partner

Weapons on HMS Alliance

Ron Gordon – Climbing into the missile tubes on patrol to check springs

HMS Splendid in harbour - close up

Chris Groves – Time on first nuclear submarine

Skimmer coming - Chris Groves

Chris Groves – Not making it through Perisher Driving Test

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) aerial - 1954 or 1955

Steve Thorpe – Decommissioning of Dolphin

Life on board composite #11

Ian Moore – Being able to react without thinking

Tigerfish nearly home ready for tube mounted dispenser - Opossum 1990 - Ian Moore's

Colin Clarke – Weapons Weeks and Inshore Ops on Perisher

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) aerial - 1954 or 1955

Jim Perks – The importance of Gosport to the Submarine Service

General submarine composite #29

Ian Moore – Homesickness whilst training at Tor Point

Escape training & SETT composite #2

Ian Moore – Visiting a mouldy Dolphin

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Steve Thorpe – First time in SETT

CMEA Arthur Mapstone - Armature change HMS Opossum 1990

Ian Moore – Tommy Gould released unexploded bomb under casing

Food & Drink composite #6

Don Cleavin – Navy Chefs

Escape training & SETT composite #1

Ian Moore – Qualifying at SETT every four years

Life on board composite #13

Ian Moore – Military comes first, family second

HMS Lowestoft crew canteen Malta 1964 - Brian Wood

Andy Dinsdale – Catching the Dolphins in his teeth

Torbay - 15 - Under way at sea - No Neg

Midge Ure – How the different shifts work for and aft

Climbing Fujiyama 1962 - Colin Hamilton

Colin Hamilton – The Brotherhood

Life on board composite #2

Ron Gordon – Difference between surface fleet and submarine service

Orpheus - bow on

Ian Moore – The Loch Long tragedy

General submarine composite #24

Andy Dinsdale – Being onboard during Perisher

Joining up composite #2

Andy Dinsdale – What attracted me to join the Navy

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