Colin Hamilton – Four Submarines that have been lost

Three or four weeks later, she [Poseidon] was in Portland, loading torpedoes, high test peroxide torpedoes, and there was an explosion and it subsequently killed 12 of them. The Doctor from the Depot Ship went down, and he died as well, so 13 died altogether and there were a lot of casualties and they scrapped, they sank it in Portland. It was a seven-hour boat which was quite tragic.

There are four submarines they’ve lost, and this is explained when they come round the Submarine Museum, they’re listed, of all the submarines that we have lost and the four at the bottom including the one that sank in Dolphin not so very long ago, the Artemis. They are a reminder of … there’s a memorial on the Sea Front that we go to.

There’s a ceremony every year for the Affray, which was local sub that went down the other side of the Isle of Wight. Somewhere between the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands, and we have a commemoration every year.

They were all Portsmouth people and Gosport people who died in that submarine.