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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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DSRV-2 Avalon attached to UK submarine HMS Repulse May 1979 - Brian Wood

Don Cleavin – Explosion on board (3)

1016 Gosport Town Centre Ferry Gardens View from tower blocks 1966 - Gosport Society

Ron Gordon – What Gosport means to me

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) 1986 - Neg 11,537

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

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

Colin Clarke – Weapons Weeks and Inshore Ops on Perisher

The Submarine Escape Training Tower

Chris Groves – After SETT closed – SMERAS is more realistic

Vigilant under way

Ian Moore – Nuclear subs the ‘real deal’

HMS Oracle - David White

Steve Thorpe – Compact sleeping

Life on board composite #3

Steve Thorpe – Role of the Petty Officer

HMS Otus (Welsh contingent) on a visit to Barry 1967 - Brian Wood

Brian Wood – I started to enjoy it after Part 3

Royal Arms December 2023 - Richard Cook - enlarged (comp)

Midge Ure – Pubs in Gosport

HMS Splendid in harbour - close up

Chris Groves – Time on first nuclear submarine

HMS Vanguard entering harbour Sept 1994

Andy Dinsdale – Officer training

Food & Drink composite #5

David White – Lazy chefs lead to weight loss

HMS Lowestoft crew canteen Malta 1964

Colin Clarke – Explaining the camaraderie of the Submarine Service

SPAG - something was in the way - Brian Wood

Steve Thorpe – Getting MBE for work with San Juan

Food & Drink composite #3

Colin Clarke – Catching Dolphins in your teeth from tumbler of rum

General submarine composite #14

Colin Hamilton – Different training

Life on board composite #11

Ian Moore – Sign language

1984 - first time home in rig - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Why join the Submarine Service?

Life on board composite #4

Midge Ure – Free socks

HMS OPPORTUNE Ships Company 1998 - Chris Groves (comp)

Chris Groves – Officers Training course (OTC)

HMS Odin - Engine room crew (after a long patrol) 1981 - Brian Wood

Brian Wood – Much more relaxed than a surface ship

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) 1990's

Ron Wright – Joining the Navy

Passing out HMS Raleigh 1984 - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Looking after our people better

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Don Cleavin – Escape Training Tank

General submarine composite #39

Jim Perks – How the simulators worked

Life on board composite #4

Ian Moore – Being handed letters for crew’s family members

Escape training & SETT composite #4

David White – BBC filmed David for ‘Diving Mammals’ TV programme

Submarine Escape Tank Staff Volleyball team winning the inter part competition - David White

David White – Exercise enabled longer time spent in SETT, so they played volleyball at lunch

Life on board composite #1

Colin Hamilton – FOS slept on racks of torpedoes

Food & Drink composite #3

David White – Process of loading food into a submarine’s freezer

General submarine composite #40

Ami Burns – The difference between surface fleet and submarine broadcast pipes

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