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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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Opossum in war livery - Diego Garcia 1991 - Ian Moore's

Don Cleavin – Travelling the world

Life on board composite #2

Midge Ure – Life onboard so different from ships

General submarine composite #13

David White – Slept in, so late to swimming class, forced to jump off top board

Vigilant under way

Ian Moore – Nuclear subs the ‘real deal’

Life on board composite #10

Ian Moore – Becoming a Sea Dad

General submarine composite #32

Colin Clarke – Make or break of Perisher course

At sea in Command - Chris Groves

Chris Groves – How to deal with huge amounts of information in intense situations

FOSM requalifying SETT top of the tank early 1990s - Brian Wood

David White – First time doing SETT

Food & Drink composite #4

Ron Gordon – Importance of food

Joining up composite #1

Ian Moore – The different ranks in the Submarine Service

Life on board composite #11

Ian Moore – Being able to react without thinking

General submarine composite #34

Ami Burns – ‘Bin bags’ and ‘dabbers’

Joining up composite #2

Ron Gordon – Why I joined the Submarine Service

HMS Resolution underway

Colin Clarke – Describing sonar arrays

Escape training & SETT composite #2

Ian Moore – Visiting a mouldy Dolphin

Sonar composite #1

Ian Moore – Part Three

Conqueror on return from Falklands with Jolly Roger flying

Colin Clarke – Enjoyed time out in the Falklands

Life on board composite #4

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

Joining up composite #2

Andy Dinsdale – What attracted me to join the Navy

CMEA Dulux Wadding (L) and POMEM Pip Cherry - Exhaust Y piece - HMS Oppossum - Diego Garcia - 1991

Ian Moore – The smell of diesel

HMS Chichester on the way to Kuwait - Colin Hamilton

Colin Hamilton – Joining the Navy

On patrol - HMS Sceptre 2007 - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Black humour helps you cope with the brutality of Perisher

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

Ron Gordon – Every person on a diesel submarine must know how everything works

Chief Tiff making tea for everyone - proof!

David White – The camaraderie of submariners

Escape training & SETT composite #1

Ian Moore – Day Two of qualifying at SETT

Ron Gordon and others from SPAG by airplane

Ron Gordon – How the SPAG team deployed

Food & Drink composite #2

Don Cleavin – Rum tots and fresh water

HMS Vanguard entering harbour Sept 1994

Andy Dinsdale – Officer training

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

Chris Groves – What happens during an escape – pressure equalisation

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