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Forum topic: Navy to hold anti-sub drill in West Sea
about 10 hours ago.
Forum topic: BAE Systems submarine Audacious
about 14 hours ago.
The full £20bn cost of renewing Trident deterrent must be paid by the MoD, George Osborne has said:
1 day ago.
Forum topic: Navy Rum
1 day ago.
Forum topic: KSS-II - Six more SSK 214 Class with AIP for Korea
1 day ago.
Forum topic: Russian SSK "Alrosa" Kilo class with pump-jet return to service
2 days ago.
Forum topic: Trident is not exempt from budget cuts
2 days ago.
Forum topic: Naval officer to shatter barrier under the ocean
2 days ago.
Malaysian sub successfully test fires missile:
2 days ago.
Forum topic: First Astute to be accepted by navy
3 days ago.
Forum topic: Richard Corry Alaric
3 days ago.
First Astute to be accepted by navy:
3 days ago.
800-tonne section of HMS Audacious is transferred to the Devonshire Dock Hall:
3 days ago.
Forum topic: India, Britain begin submarine naval exercise on Wednesday
3 days ago.
RT @NavyLookout: Royal Navy Submarine HMS Talent to begin exercises with Indian navy submarine
3 days ago.
Tourist magnet, HMCS Ojibwa in tug of war between Port Stanley and Port Burwell:
3 days ago.
Plans to give Britain's first submarine service fatality a more dignified resting place in Barrow:
4 days ago.
27/07/1944: HMS Sunfish serving as Russian V-1 bombed in error. All crew including British liaison were lost:
4 days ago.
Faulty engine nozzle blamed for latest Bulava missile failure:
5 days ago.
Three submarines to join Russian Black Sea Fleet:
5 days ago.
Japan to Beef Up Submarines to Counter Chinese Power:
5 days ago.
RT @seawavesmag: The Courier - Damage found to submarine HMS Resolution at Rosyth Dockyard:
6 days ago.
Forum topic: HMS TURPIN
7 days ago.
Forum topic: Whereabouts of Hank John
7 days ago.
July 22 1940 HMS Narwhal left for a minelaying mission off Norway & failed to return. Assumed sunk by enemy aircraft:
9 days ago.
Forum topic: Iran -- new submarine -- several navies !
9 days ago.
RT @NavyLookout: Submarine HMS Talent and frigate HMS Northumberland exercise together in Gulf of Oman
10 days ago.
Germany reconsiders funding Israel's latest submarine:
10 days ago.
Anti-nuclear protesters plan biggest ever blockade of Plymouth's dockyard:
10 days ago.
July 20 1941: HMS Union was sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Circe in the Strait of Sicily:
11 days ago.
Iran army to be equipped with advanced submarine:
12 days ago.
July 19 1941: HMS Umpire lost in collison. 22 of her crew went down with the ship.
12 days ago.
WW2 "suicide run" veteran receives medal from Russia 65 years on:
12 days ago.
Forum topic: Project Gutenberg's Submarine Warfare of To-day, by Charles W. Domville-Fife
12 days ago.
Forum topic: CPO Windy Breeze
12 days ago.
Forum topic: PO (Tel) Ben Skeates
12 days ago.
Five-year delay on fourth Trident decision:
16 days ago.
July 15, 1916. HMS H3 was mined attempting to penetrate the Austrian anchorage at Cattaro. Lost with all hands:
16 days ago.
Forum topic: American SSGNs Prowl The Pacific
16 days ago.
Forum topic: India allocates $11 bln to build six new submarines
18 days ago.
Forum topic: Nelson feared a shortage of water...
18 days ago.
India to acquire six subs in biggest military purchase:
19 days ago.
Forum topic: nuclear training
23 days ago.
06/07/1906: French sub Farfadet submerged with hatch improperly shut & sank. All attempts to save the crew failed:
25 days ago.
Pentagon plans 'flying submarine':
26 days ago.
USN Nuclear submarine visits Portsmouth:
26 days ago.
Forum topic: Fully functional SSK built for the primary purpose of transporting drugs
26 days ago.
Forum topic: July Newsletter now online
26 days ago.
Forum topic: HMS Saracen Reunion
26 days ago.
Forum topic: HMS Repulse Reunion
26 days ago.
Forum topic: If you wanna boat build a b******
26 days ago.
Forum topic: Discovery of U-boat wrecks rewrites the history books
27 days ago.
Forum topic: photos of my father
27 days ago.
Forum topic: Attack submarines 'collide'
27 days ago.
RT @NavyLookout: RN Submarine Museum , Gosport unveils plans to restore HMS Alliance
29 days ago.
Exercise Gib Splash, involving members of the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group (SPAG):
29 days ago.
Forum topic: RN 1951- 1960
30 days ago.
Istanbul Shipyard reveals designs for submarine rescue vessels:
31 days ago.
30-06-1942: Submarine Depot Ship HMS Medway was torpedoed and sunk off Alexanddria by U-372:
31 days ago.
Saab to Design Combat Management System for Next-generation Submarines:
32 days ago.
Ministers say shipyard’s contract is safe from government cuts:
33 days ago.
Country given insight into sub construction:
33 days ago.
Dutch submarine to help fight piracy:
33 days ago.
Forum topic: Royal-Navy-allow-female-officers-aboard-submarines-
33 days ago.
Forum topic: Largest Multinational maritime exercise now in progress!
35 days ago.
Forum topic: CMEM Jeff Powyis
36 days ago.
HOW TO BUILD.. A NUCLEAR SUBMARINE - Sunday, BBC 2, 9:00pm
36 days ago.
Forum topic: Operation Catapult
37 days ago.
Forum topic: Dutch SSK for fighting piracy
38 days ago.
RT @mailonline: Royal Navy to allow female officers aboard submarines after report dispels health fears
40 days ago.
Museum plan may see Onyx winched ashore:
42 days ago.
Forum topic: CMC Program to Define Future SSBN Launchers for UK, USA
43 days ago.
Forum topic: US Navy Test-Fires Trident Missiles
44 days ago.
Forum topic: Russia: new multiporpose "Yasen" Class launched today
45 days ago.
Defence chief to look at cost of Trident renewal:
46 days ago.
Forum topic: Monster Boomer Returned To Service
49 days ago.
Forum topic: Is Pakistan looking for chinese SSK's?
49 days ago.
Forum topic: Monster Boomer Returned To Service
51 days ago.
Russia has changed its mind about retiring its Typhoon SSBNs:
51 days ago.
Congratulations to crew of Ambush after winning 3 trophies in RN Field Gun competition. First sub crew to compete in the event.
51 days ago.
Forum topic: Navy asks for industry ideas on submarine technology,
51 days ago.
09-06-1931: HMS Poseidon was lost after a collision with SS Yuta off Wei-Hai-Wei in the Gulf of Korea:
52 days ago.
Forum topic: Arthur or Martha ?
52 days ago.
Indonesia plans to buy more submarines:
54 days ago.
Memorial service for 71st anniversary of Thetis submarine disaster:
54 days ago.
In a surprise move, Germany decommissions six of its ten submarines:
54 days ago.
RT @seawavesmag: K-222 submarine scrapped in Severodvinsk
55 days ago.
Forum topic: WHO swine flu experts 'linked' with drug companies
56 days ago.
Forum topic: AUSTRALIA biggest naval warship acquisition program since World War II
56 days ago.
Contract to deliver 6 Kilo class subs to Vietnam worth $3.2 billion:
57 days ago.
Forum topic: Barrow Built Section removed
58 days ago.
RT @NavyLookout: As closure rumors continue, former Sea Lords fire warning shots over future of Portsmouth naval base
59 days ago.
Forum topic: New HMS Raleigh accommodation pays tribute to Navy heritage
59 days ago.
Union activists call for Trident axe:
59 days ago.
Is it Trident or nothing, after all?
59 days ago.
Russia to transfer its Nerpa nuclear submarine to India in autumn 2010:
59 days ago.
First Steel Cut for Brazilian Submarine Programme:
59 days ago.
Forum topic: June Branch Newsletter Added
60 days ago.
Forum topic: International Criminal Court
60 days ago.
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