HMS Safari.

HMS Seraph.

HMS Sportsman.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2404

ORIGINAL POSTCARD FOR SALE.  DONATED TOWARDS THE UPKEEP OF THIS SITE.

HMS Scythian

Sea Scout pictured on the right in 1956. 

HMS Selene.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2405

HMS Sentinel, October 1949.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2408

HMS Sentinel.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2406

HMS Sentinel, 1949.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2407

HMS Sleuth.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2409

HMS Springer.

A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available.  Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder.  A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25.   Order photograph here   Order Code  XMP2410

S Class submarine possibly HMS Scotsman pictured January 1949. 

Naval Historians, Crew & Family Noticeboard

Seraph (S)

Photographs and information on historical events about these submarines requested for this new website. If you have any information you would like to send us including photographs of crew members serving on any of these submarines and also photographs of the ship please USE OUR MESSAGE FORM 

MESSAGES

HMS STURDY.. E.J.A. GIBSON.. My father served on HMS Sturdy as an engineer officer when she was wrecked on Tiree. I would be interested to hear if there are any survivors left. Contact me at MGIBSON829@aol.com 

HMS SARACEN.. JOHN PEACH.. My father served on HMS Saracen as a helmsman during WW2. He is 81 now and very nostalgic about the friends who served with him. If anyone has any information on the submarine or the crew please contact Jan at terry@hickman8870.freeserve.co.uk 

Secret Operation by Robert Taylor.

Submariners are a special breed of sailor. Their environment, operating deep beneath the surface of the waves, is both unnatural and dangerous, and demands men of cool courage and exceptional quality. Prowling the depths like a mammoth shark, sometimes hunted, submarine crews live and fight, and sometimes die together, alone in the remote expanses of the worlds great oceans. Regardless of national flag under which they sail, this small elite Silent Service is both feared and admired by all who sail the seas. Plying their deadly trade in World War Two, the German U-boats posed such threat to the vital Atlantic convoys; Winston Churchill feared the submarine threat more than anything Hitler had at his disposal. Hunting in wolf packs, roaming the shipping lanes far beyond the reach of protective aircraft, they decimated the Allied merchant vessels during the Battle of the Atlantic. Manned entirely by volunteers, British and American submarines saw action in every maritime theatre during the great conflict of 1939 - 1945, the crews fighting their solitary, stealthy, secret war with courage and nerves of steel. This print captures the menacing beauty of a submarine on the surface: S-Class type HMS Sceptre slips her moorings in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and glides quietly into the North Sea to begin another top secret underwater operation. On the conning tower the skipper takes a final look across the water to the distant highlands while the crew savour the fresh salt air knowing soon they will submerge into their eerie, silent, artificial world, beneath the waves.

Signed limited edition of 700 prints. Image size 13.5 inches x 10 inches (34cm x 25cm). Price £80.00

Signed by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Lumby KCB, OBE, DSO, DSC, Vice-Admiral Sir lan McGeoch KCB DSO DFC, Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh KBE, CB, DSO, DSC and Commander Edward Young DSO, DSC*, RNV (S) R.

ITEM CODE DHM2150