Colin Hamilton – The Brotherhood

Simon: Talking about rivalry or comradeship, within the submarine, how was that … what’s the feeling, the closeness, the brotherhood if you like of submariners?

Oh everybody got on. I mean you had to, especially on conventional submarines, there was nowhere you could go for a fight.

I mean I’ve seen a bit of friction but very, very rarely fisticuffs. And even in the nuclear submarines were very much the same.

People did get on, it was a brotherhood, you know, the brethren of submariners who stick, you know, whatever their disagreement they would thick and thin they would stick with you.

I never ever saw any friction.