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Don Cleavin – Looking after the engines

Don Cleavin – First time on board | Don Cleavin – Using just batteries and air
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You had to learn how to run the engines as well.

All the procedures for operating the engines.

They had lovely engines on there.

Two Vickers 6-cylinder engines. 1,208 odd horsepower each engine, direct drive, so you had to learn how to operate these things.

Caring for them, lubricating them and cleaning then as well.

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Don Cleavin

Portrait of Don Cleavin by Julian Winslow for Submariners' Stories Oral History project
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