Colin Hamilton – FOS slept on racks of torpedoes

We took Flag Officer Submarines to sea. Must have been Warspite I suppose, and he slept on the torpedo racks.

That’s where they put the extras. Normally the Captain might have given his cabin up for the Flag Officer of Submarines, but he didn’t. He insisted on sleeping, you know, not inconveniencing anybody, so he slept in the fore ends with the lads, the extras, the trainees.

They were proper bunks but they were actually on the racks of the torpedoes. So, all in all, people know their place.

So, life was much more comfortable, but they don’t get trips like the Warspite anymore.

They don’t go out to the Far East and visit the Seychelles and the Maldives and Mombasa and all these places we went to.