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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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HMS Oracle - David White

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

Escape training & SETT composite #6

Brian Wood – How to increase your lung capacity

HMS Otus on return from Gulf

Ron Gordon – Sea running and sea riding

General submarine composite #6

Ian Moore – Incident with Russian sub – Part 2

Escape training & SETT composite #5

Ian Moore – First experience of SETT

5097 Gosport Postcard Views of Gosport - Gosport Society

David White – Memories of Gosport – Brickwood’s pubs

General submarine composite #33

Andy Dinsdale – What different engineers are responsible for

General submarine composite #39

Jim Perks – How the simulators worked

The Wardroom HMS Torbay 2006 - Lisbon Nov 05 (10) - Chris Groves

Chris Groves – Assets available to teacher during Perisher

Escape training & SETT composite #6

Steve Thorpe – Using a submarine escape suit

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Steve Thorpe – Understanding Surface Abandonment

General submarine composite #37

Midge Ure – First time at sea in a submarine

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

Brian Wood – I started to enjoy it after Part 3

Ron Gordon and others from SPAG on airplane

Ron Gordon – If you don’t concentrate, things can go wrong

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Don Cleavin – Escape Training Tank

aprons hanging up

Lesley Ure – The concept of stay-at-home Naval wives is changing

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

Ian Moore – The smell of diesel

Escape training & SETT composite #4

Steve Thorpe – First time in SETT

HMS Oberon entering Portsmouth harbour

Lesley Ure – Experience of being a service wife

Composite image of Gosport Pubs

Lesley Ure – Going out in Gosport

General submarine composite #7

Don Cleavin – Part Three Examination

01 - Trenchant in harbour - Neg 1158

Don Cleavin – How long diesels could stay under

Life on board composite #2

Steve Thorpe – Water treated like gold

Dolphin 1986 - Neg 12,129

Jim Perks – Wanted to experience ‘O’ boats

Escape training & SETT composite #1

Ron Gordon – Training to work at SETT

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

Midge Ure – Volunteering to join the submarine service

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) 1990's

Colin Clarke – Playing tennis for Dolphin

Perisher 100 - the Teachers - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Uniqueness of Perisher

Covid masks

Jim Perks – The impact of Covid on Submariners

2002 Spearfish Live Sinkex - Chris Groves

Chris Groves – First live firing of Spearfish torpedo

General submarine composite #40

Midge Ure – Swimming off the submarine – Hands to Bathe and BBQ

Food & Drink composite #5

Ami Burns – The importance of food at sea

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