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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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Skimmer coming - Chris Groves

Jim Perks – The Perisher ballet

On Patrol - 05 sub - Chris Groves

Jim Perks – Failing Perisher after Eyes Only

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) aerial - 1954 or 1955

Steve Thorpe – Decommissioning of Dolphin

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Steve Thorpe – First time in SETT

Torbay - 15 - Under way at sea - No Neg

Midge Ure – How the different shifts work for and aft

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

Brian Wood – Much more relaxed than a surface ship

Escape training & SETT composite #1

Don Cleavin – The instructors were good

Ron Gordon and others from SPAG by airplane

Ron Gordon – How the SPAG team deployed

17 - Churchill coming alongside at Faslane - No Neg

Ian Moore – Whistling at sea superstition

HMS Raleigh for under training in 1961 - Colin Hamilton

Midge Ure – A Submariner’s rig

Baby feet

Lesley Ure – Life as a submariner’s partner with a young baby

General submarine composite #25

Colin Clarke – Inshore ops with the Marines

SPAG waiting for the Green light - one minute to go - Brian Wood

Steve Thorpe – Response Force

Food & Drink composite #1

Colin Hamilton – Making beer and drawing in Dolphin

Test rescue with Italian SPAG team Taranto, Italy mid 2000s - Brian Wood

David White – Escaping from a submarine at 400 feet deep

General submarine composite #37

Jim Perks – Small Ship command

General submarine composite #35

Don Cleavin – On board HMS Forth

5017 Alverstoke Park Road The Park Hotel - Gosport Society

Lesley Ure – Favourite haunts in Gosport

Life on board composite #11

Ian Moore – Being able to react without thinking

Orpheus - bow on

Ian Moore – Dolphin cap tally

HMS OPPORTUNE Ships Company 1998 - Chris Groves (comp)

Chris Groves – Officers Training course (OTC)

Dolphin 1986 - Neg 12,129

Jim Perks – Wanted to experience ‘O’ boats

HMS Ursula

Don Cleavin – Navigating the Great Barrier Reef

HMS Resolution underway

Colin Clarke – Describing sonar arrays

Composite image photos of submariners for PHOTOS section on Home Page

Ron Gordon – Being ready for action

HMS Oracle - David White

Colin Hamilton – Drafted to Barrow

13 - Porpoise in Portsmouth harbour

Colin Hamilton – Difference between diesel and nuclear submarines

Perisher reunion on HMS Westminster Cdre Bob Anstey OBE, RAdm Hugh Beard CB (CO Westminster at time), Me and RAdm Paul Halton OBE - Aug 2014 - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – The pressures of being Teacher

bunch of wooden pegs

Lesley Ure – You want everything to go wonderfully

CMEA Bob Barker - Exhaust Y piece change - boat unknown - 1991

Lesley Ure – Smell of diesel made me violently sick when pregnant

General submarine composite #2

Jim Perks – Role of the Comms Officer

Weapons on HMS Alliance

Ron Gordon – Test firing nuclear missiles with the Americans

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