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Diesel Submarines

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The earlier generation of submarines, the Diesel subs were limited on how long they could stay under the surface and were much smaller than today’s Nuclear counterparts.

Our Submariners have provided great insight into what it was like living and working on board diesel submarines in these range of fascinating snippets.

24 - Trenchant Post WWII - No gun - Neg 7842

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Dolphin 1986 - Neg 12,129
Jim Perks – Wanted to experience ‘O’ boats
LR5 UK rescue submarine - Brian Wood
Colin Hamilton – Escape routes
24 - Trenchant Post WWII - No gun - Neg 7842
Don Cleavin – Smell of diesel
01 - Trenchant in harbour - Neg 1158
Don Cleavin – How long diesels could stay under
Poseidon - 06 - Under way at sea - Neg 2255
Chris Groves – Used to be different officer training for diesel and nuclear
Sovereign under way - Neg 11,698
Colin Hamilton – Engine change in Hamburg and held up by Greenpeace
CMEA Bob Barker - Exhaust Y piece change - boat unknown - 1991
Lesley Ure – Smell of diesel made me violently sick when pregnant
HMS Oracle - David White
Don Cleavin – Freshwater and washing
Auriga entering Halifax - Jan 1963
Colin Clarke – Part 3 Training
Triumph - 8 June 1994
Steve Thorpe – Diesel versus Nuclear
Opossum Finished with both generators 1992 - Ian Moore's
Don Cleavin – Noise in the engine room
13 - Porpoise in Portsmouth harbour
Colin Hamilton – Difference between diesel and nuclear submarines
02 - Porpoise by Tower bridge 1958
Don Cleavin – Using just batteries and air
CMEA Dulux Wadding (L) and POMEM Pip Cherry - Exhaust Y piece - HMS Oppossum - Diego Garcia - 1991
Ian Moore – The smell of diesel
HMS Oracle - David White
Steve Thorpe – Compact sleeping
HMS Odin - Engine room crew (after a long patrol) 1981 - Brian Wood
Ron Gordon – Every person on a diesel submarine must know how everything works
HMS Otus on return from Gulf
Ron Gordon – Sea running and sea riding
Nuclear propulsion short course 1966 at HMS Sultan - Colin Hamilton
Colin Hamilton – Award for longest serving member of HMS Sultan
Ocelot - June 1970 - W&L
Don Cleavin – How long diesels could stay under (2)
HMS Odin - Engine room crew (after a long patrol) 1981 - Brian Wood
Don Cleavin – Looking after the engines
General submarine composite #30
Don Cleavin – Refuelling
Opossum Finished with both generators 1992 - Ian Moore's
Don Cleavin – How the diesel engine worked
General submarine composite #5
Colin Hamilton – Four Submarines that have been lost
HMS Otter
David White – Diesels had people sleeping were others were eating right on top of each other
Sovereign under way - Neg 11,698
Midge Ure – Diesel engines still onboard nuclear submarines

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