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

Chris Groves – Assets available to teacher during Perisher

SETT Staff - 1984 - includes D Hubbard and Roy Taylor

Brian Wood – Joining SETT

Submarines at Gosport - Imperial War Museum - IWM HU 84836

Ron Gordon – Fondness for Gosport

Sonar composite #6

Colin Clarke – The three key tenets of a submarine

Weapons on HMS Alliance

Ron Gordon – 50 years undetected

CMEA Arthur Mapstone - Armature change HMS Opossum 1990

Ian Moore – Tommy Gould released unexploded bomb under casing

HMS Chichester on the way to Kuwait - Colin Hamilton

Colin Hamilton – Joining the Navy

SPAG jump - Brian Wood

Ron Gordon – First SPAG exercise

Joining up composite #1

Chris Groves – Joining the Navy

Splendid - Officer on bridge with Jolly Roger flying

Chris Groves – Types of Officer

Life on board composite #6

Ian Moore – The pirate rig

HMS Oracle - David White

Steve Thorpe – Compact sleeping

General submarine composite #13

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

HMS Oberon entering Portsmouth harbour

Lesley Ure – Experience of being a service wife

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

Ian Moore – The role of Sea Dads

Tim Shone - Horse - Snort smoke clearance during fire exercise- Opossum 1990 - Ian Moore's

Colin Clarke – Impact of Perisher on rest of the crew

24 - Trenchant Post WWII - No gun - Neg 7842

Don Cleavin – Smell of diesel

General submarine composite #40

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

Supply and catering staff of HMS Renown (Stbd crew) c.1983. I'm far left - David White

David White – Why I joined the Navy

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

Ian Moore – The smell of diesel

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

Colin Clarke – Weapons Weeks and Inshore Ops on Perisher

Another Perisher reunion - Jim Perks

Jim Perks – How I learnt of my Commandership

HMS Oracle - David White

Don Cleavin – Freshwater and washing

General submarine composite #1

Ian Moore – Depth charged by Russians on sneaky patrol

General submarine composite #34

Don Cleavin – Other explosions

Life on board composite #2

Steve Thorpe – Water treated like gold

Office scenes composite

Don Cleavin – Transition to Civvy Street

Food & Drink composite #2

Don Cleavin – Rum tots and fresh water

Ron Gordon in uniform abroad

Ron Gordon – Leaving the service and joining Civvy Street

General submarine composite #23

Colin Hamilton – Doing Part 1 and 2

Joining up composite #3

Ian Moore – Father unhappy I had joined the Navy

Orpheus - bow on

Ian Moore – Dolphin cap tally

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