Ron Gordon – 50 years undetected

And that’s what it’s all about, it’s just doing your job and keeping the submarine ‘cos what we celebrated recently was 50 years at sea undetected.

Simon Yeah, that’s phenomenal.

Ron Yeah, never been detected at sea despite The Vigil programme that came on. A load of crap but good drama, but you know we never got detected.

When that submarine’s out on patrol, there’s only about four people who knew where the submarine was.

The Navigating Officer, maybe his Senior Rate, and then the First Lieutenant and the Captain would know exactly where the submarine was.

The rest of us just knew we were heading north ‘cos the water was getting colder.