Midge Ure – A Submariner’s rig

So, when you become a Submariner, when you get selected to be a Submariner, you get given … so, in the Navy, when you join on Day 1, HMS Raleigh, you get given your trousers, your shirt, your shoes, your beret, all that sort of stuff, jumpers and it’s a basic RN attire.

When you join the Submarine Service, in addition to that you get even a woolly pully, a string vest, and it was a real crap string vest, there was 2 or 3 of them, there was green leggings, and you got socks.

But the woolly pully was the one thing that everybody wanted ‘cos that earmarked you as Submariner, and that was the only time I ever went down to Dolphin, outside of going to the SETT