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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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Life on board composite #12

Andy Dinsdale – Why being a submariner is such a good career

SPAG Hercules - Brian Wood

Steve Thorpe – Jumping out of a plane

HMS Porpoise alongside Faslane floating dock

Don Cleavin – Memories of Faslane

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

Chris Groves – Silver Jubilee in Gosport as a child

General submarine composite #42

Chris Groves – What can go wrong onboard a submarine

Escape training & SETT composite #6

Steve Thorpe – Using a submarine escape suit

Having drinks in Kuwait 1962 - Colin Hamilton

Ron Gordon – Experiencing fear onboard – Beer kegs and Ballast tanks

Orpheus - bow on

Ian Moore – Dolphin cap tally

HMS Otus on return from Gulf

Lesley Ure – Adjusting to the return of your submariner partner

Life on board composite #3

Steve Thorpe – Role of the Petty Officer

Life on board composite #8

Steve Thorpe – Relationship between Officers and Ratings

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

Chris Groves – Travelled the World with surface fleet

Food & Drink composite #2

David White – A typical day for chefs

Submariners Memorial National Arboretum - May 2022 - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Seeing service records of 91 years of Perisher

LR5 UK rescue submarine - Brian Wood

Chris Groves – Rescue submarines

Snorting watch - Big Bad Bungy Williams, me and stokers - Opossum 1990 - Ian Moore's

Ian Moore – The Submarine Family

The entrance to HMS Dolphin

Chris Groves – Privilege of giving out Dolphins (Having a bucket nearby)

Escape training & SETT composite #5

Ian Moore – First experience of SETT

Triumph - 8 June 1994

Chris Groves – Diving all the way to the Suez Canal

Fort Blockhouse (Dolphin) 1986 - Neg 11,537

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

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

Midge Ure – Volunteering to join the submarine service

HMS Resolution underway

Andy Dinsdale – Adjusting your eyes to use a periscope

Food & Drink composite #2

David White – Challenge of baking bread on board a submarine

Ron Gordon and others from SPAG by airplane

Ron Gordon – How the SPAG team deployed

Sonar composite #4

Ian Moore – Becoming a podiatrist

Life on board composite #7

Colin Clarke – Nickname

General submarine composite #34

Jim Perks – Joining the Submarine Service

OSP - Box 9 - 23 - SPAG team loading into Royal Navy Plane

Ron Gordon – Training for SPAG

Loading Mk24 Tigerfish - Opossum 1990 - Ian Moore's

Steve Thorpe – Deployment of weaponry

Trenchant crew on commissioning

Colin Clarke – Joining the Navy

HMS Lowestoft crew canteen Malta 1964

Steve Thorpe – A message for young people

1984 - first time home in rig - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – Why join the Submarine Service?

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