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RN Submarines 1950-1975 World Naval Ships Forums Archive

RN Submarines 1950-1975

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This RN Submarine photo gallery is for boats built between 1950 and 1975, although I have included as well a few built between 1943 and 1950 because their service lives spanned the same years. Again this is only a selection I have chosen at random so please post in if there is a particular submarine you would like to see. If I have one I will gladly post it.
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Here are a few boats that I worked with in the Fifties up at Rothesay. They were mostly pre modernisation so I thought I would give you an example of "Before and After" Bob.
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This was the ship that used to chase them about day in and day out. HMS Termagant. You will notice that both sets of tubes have been removed to enable us to recover the torpedoes that had been fired, us being the target ship. This was a pig of a job as there were no electric winches and everything was Handraulic. I was only a Boy seaman at the time and I wasn't impressed! Bob.
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Further to my last post for the members information here is a site which is quite informative about the Isle of Bute during and after the war:- [url]http://www.butesonsanddaughters.co.uk/navy.shtml[/url] The depot ship during my period was HMS Montclare. If anyone has a picture of the Torpedo recovery vessel Dwarf I would be very grateful if you could let me have a copy of it. Bob.
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An excellent post Bob, detailing all those before and after modernisation pictures of the submarines.

Whilst sorting through piles of photographs and scanning them on to the computer - I came across these examples to add...
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Here's a few unusual ones SHRIMP , MINNOW and STICKLEBACK. Dave
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And some XE Craft
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Thanks for those Dave - they were all new for me!

Heres my meagre contribution, the 1st being the ALLIANCE which is on show and open to the public at Gosport sub museum and is over due for refurbishment, my 2nd is the T -class TURPIN which was later sold to Israel and renamed LEVIATHAN, I thought that I had one of the TOTEM which the Israelies bought but was lost on route with all hands.
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Had a scrat among my photos in my old "ditty box" which could do with renewing ,worse for wear, and found another 4 sub pics from my navy days. Dave.
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Cannot compete with you lads on sub photos.
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Here's the X1 from the other end. Bob.
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Some sub pictures for you: Left to Right: Explorer, Andrew, Tapir and Trenchant. Sorry about the quality but hopeless with the scanner jan
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And some more. The one on the left is Tabard, then from top to bottom Tally Ho, Alliance, Tactician I was not a submariner but I collected these from Mr. Fisk (remember him?) as a boy at Ganges Jan
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Good to find a picture of Montclare; my father was on it during the mid to late 40s. Does anybody have anymore pictures, or better stiil, a badge/crest? Thanks Mark/Essex

here s hms opportune in colour, Joseph
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How about this one Mark?
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Here's one of HMS/m ALLIANCE - after a re-vamp on her. As she appears now at the RN Submarine Museum. Now to I/D where the boat is ??? Gib / Malta ??? Whilst setting up ALLIANCE on the stocks a certain stoker (no name no pack-drill) would look through the peep-stick at the ladies `disporting' themselves in the flats alongside DOLPHIN. Ah well, thats what Matelots do !!! Sadsac
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Dennis, another fine photo there, it looks like Gib to me, but then I was never much good with places..... Could only have been a 'stoker' with such ungentlemanly behaviour as that:p Regards Alan

Definitely GIB Alan Gerry

OK Alan & Gerry, will note that on the photo TA Dennis

Orpheous and Sealion (I think). Bill
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Does any one have any more pictures of Artemis? Thank's for yours Bob, I like the before and after shots.

Geordie, send me a pm with your email address and I'll forward a nice photo of Artemis to you. Regards Alan

Artemis in scrap
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Thanks for the Submarine memories, never served on boats but worked with a lot of them when I was on Adamant [SM2] - T's A's and O's mostly. The next generation of Nuclears etc didn't seem to have the same charisma as the old boats. Dave H

Thanks very much for the picture of Artemis, Robin. I have only just noticed it as I think I was away from the forum on the day that you posted it. Nice to see your posts again old friend!:)

Terry Here is another of Artemis which I took during her final scrapping
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As promised I will now attach some pics of Sea Scout taken during her visit to HMS Worcester in 1959.
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I appreciate that this is a bit later than 1950 - but has any kind soul got a decent photograph of HMS/m NARWHAL...Please.... George

[QUOTE=ltotenby;109256]I appreciate that this is a bit later than 1950 - but has any kind soul got a decent photograph of HMS/m NARWHAL...Please.... George[/QUOTE] Try this one george, regards Alan
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[QUOTE=ltotenby;109256]I appreciate that this is a bit later than 1950 - but has any kind soul got a decent photograph of HMS/m NARWHAL...Please.... George[/QUOTE] Hi George, here are a couple of better pics.
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Moved five or six posts above to correct submarine thread.
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Hope it's ok to post the engine room shot of Trump on this thread? It was taken by my dad's cousin who was a stoker onboard :)
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[QUOTE=lodesman;10006899]Hope it's ok to post the engine room shot of Trump on this thread? It was taken by my dad's cousin who was a stoker onboard :)[/QUOTE] That would please Donald Trump, the new US President knowing that a RN sub carried his name:D:D

Never served aboard submarines but my son who is an HGV driver delivers on a regular basis to the Devonport Dockyard and told me of the decommissioned nuclear subs there , some from the 90s ,why is it taking too long for the authorities to scrap them and why has the navy not tried to sell them as they do on other warships?
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"Nuclear" is the answer to both questions! If scrapped, some of the material would remain radioactive, and the powers that be are still trying to find somewhere where such material can be safely stored (some isotopes have extremely long half-lives, and thus will remain radioactive for decades). If sold on, that would break the non-proliferation treaty (unless to a nuclear power - and the ones the UK would be prepared to sell to have their own).

Yes, their disposal will most likely be a problem for our grand-children's grand-children. Jim

Why cannot Winscales in Cumbria not handle it----they did it for the Chinese so why not for the Navy--not like the navy not to find a solution to the problem. I remember when serving aboard the light cruiser CEYLON in 58/9 out in the Far East there was a submarine based over at HIGHFLYER (Trincomalee) any one know which one this was--date probably around the time that the HOGUE was in collision on night exercises and was towed into Trinco?

[QUOTE=tjstoneman;10160166]"Nuclear" is the answer to both questions! If scrapped, some of the material would remain radioactive, and the powers that be are still trying to find somewhere where such material can be safely stored (some isotopes have extremely long half-lives, and thus will remain radioactive for decades). If sold on, that would break the non-proliferation treaty (unless to a nuclear power - and the ones the UK would be prepared to sell to have their own).[/QUOTE] The Radioactive component of these boats is about the size of a domestic refrigerator . If removed the remainder of the boat is just scrap so maybe it is not quite such a big problem as people imagine . The problem is as you say finding somewhere that component can be stored for very long period and that is going to be the problem for every nation using Nuclear propulsion technology. Dave H

There were plans to build a store the size of a city( Carlisle) a mile or so under ground here in Cumberland but the public were against it---no doubt the plans will go ahead in years to come --maybe this was to be the stores for such materials from nuclear submarines---at least I won`t be here to see it but I hope when it does happen that the forces that be know what they are doing for the sake of our grandchildren` safety.

The Americans cut out the reactor compartment sections of their subs and then store them in a trench at Hanford, Washington State. The remainder of the submarine can then be recycled as normal. In the UK retired nuclear submarines were laid up under Project ISOLUS - Interim Storage Of Laid Up Submarines - in Devonport and Rosyth. Now under the Submarine Dismantling Project (SDP) the MOD have identified a preferred site, Capenhurst Nuclear Services, for interim storage of submarine reactor pressure vessels (refrigerator sized?) starting sometime in the 2020s when we will finally start to dismantle our decommissioned subs. It has been a long time - Dreadnought left service in 1980 and is still afloat at Rosyth.

Here is a photo of that site - with both submarine and cruiser reactor compartments:
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Blackbat: I assume the 8 reactor cores from the Enterprise will end up there. Brian

As it is the only storage location for USN shipboard reactor compartments, that is a safe assumption.

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