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BAE Systems Barrow boss on future of shipyard:
about 21 hours ago.
Navy sex scandal fears as women are set to be allowed to serve in RN submarines:
1 day ago.
Norway to postpone plan to raise German submarine wreck:
5 days ago.
Russia successfully tests a Sineva missile from a submarine:
5 days ago.
Last T-class refit draws to a close:
6 days ago.
4/3/1942: Lt Cdr Anthony Cecil Chapel Miers DSO RN earned a VC whilst on patrol in HM Submarine Torbay:
6 days ago.
Barrow sub Astute 'faults' claim (Forum Topic by xbilgerat):
7 days ago.
Captain of Astute defends against claims it had 'serious faults' during sea trials and worried the crew:
7 days ago.
03/03/1971 - HMS Dreadnought became the first British submarine to surface at the North Pole:
7 days ago.
Chinese SSBN "Jin" Class with tubes opened (Forum Topic by torres1944):
7 days ago.
Americans Foresee U.S. Military Decline Ahead (Forum Topic by xbilgerat):
8 days ago.
Medals galore (Forum Topic by Lofty):
8 days ago.
Thinking about the Unthinkable: USA and Iran Deal? (Forum Topic by torres1944):
8 days ago.
HMS Visigoth (Forum Topic by Maurice):
8 days ago.
Swedish Gov' approves initiation of design phase for new generation submarines for Royal Swedish Navy:
8 days ago.
02/03/1918: The steamer Rutherglen rammed & sank HMS H5 believing the submarine to be a U-boat:
8 days ago.
Navy’s plan to reduce submarine fleet by will render it unable to meet critical requirements say lawmakers:
9 days ago.
Astute captain defends £1bn vessel despite technical problems:
10 days ago.
Links for Twitter or Facebook users (Forum Topic by Merlin):
10 days ago.
March Branch Newsletter Added (Forum Topic by Merlin):
10 days ago.
1 killed, 2 wounded in Indian submarine fire:
11 days ago.
China is concerned by the buildup of ASEAN submarine fleets in seas bordering China:
11 days ago.
Fire in indian SSK: one sailor killed and two injured (Forum Topic by torres1944):
12 days ago.
US Navy SEALs' new airlock minisub - made in Blighty:
12 days ago.
Are the MOD going to sanction females for submarine service? (Forum Topic by polto):
12 days ago.
Kockums to Design Sweden‘s Next-Generation Submarine:
12 days ago.
25/02/1880: Resurgam, the worlds first mechanically-driven submarine sank whilst being towed to Portsmouth:
13 days ago.
RT @NavyLookout: Royal Navy could follow USN lead as allow women to serve on submarines
13 days ago.
Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft tests submarine battery cells on board catamaran:
13 days ago.
RT @NavyTimes: Pentagon announces end of ban on women on subs
14 days ago.
Ex-army chief’s comments spark Trident controversy:
14 days ago.
Venezuela calls for removal of submarine platform in Falkland Islands:
15 days ago.
23/02/1942 HMS P38 was lost during an attack on a convoy off Tripoli:
15 days ago.
Trials for 'KD Tunku Abdul Rahman' today (Forum Topic by xbilgerat):
16 days ago.
The MoD plans to use the Devonport dockyard as a centre for dismantling nuclear submarines:
17 days ago.
KD Tunku Abdul Rahman's much delayed trials start after engineers certify the submarine is safe to dive:
17 days ago.
"Fire at scrapped nuclear sub in north Russia extinguished - RIA Novosti" -
18 days ago.
Commander Dewhurst and Rorqual. (Forum Topic by cornwallis):
18 days ago.
"New Submarine Project Office to be formed - Australian Defence Magazine" -
20 days ago.
On the 18/02/1871, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was registered as a company and began trading:
20 days ago.
Astute sets sail for first diving trials at sea:
21 days ago.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana (Forum Topic by xbilgerat):
21 days ago.
17/2/1864: First torpedo attack by Hunley, explosion so great that sub also blew up killing all on board:
22 days ago.
India's Arihant nuclear-powered submarine to be armed with ballistic missiles,
22 days ago.
The real 007s ? (Forum Topic by xbilgerat):
22 days ago.
death of relative (Forum Topic by clang):
22 days ago.
Great Exercise ASW "Noble Manta 2010" (Forum Topic by torres1944):
23 days ago.
Chinese salvage HMS Poseidon ? (Forum Topic by Frank Dutton):
24 days ago.
RT @Australian_Navy: 14 Feb 1990: Keel laying ceremony for Navy submarine HMAS Collins held:
24 days ago.
13/2/1942 tHMS Tempest depth charged & forced to surface. Italians botched the rescue & just 24 survived:
25 days ago.
The CIA has revealed details about secret Cold War-era project to raise a sunken Soviet submarine:
25 days ago.
HMS Osiris 1982 (Forum Topic by Marcantilan):
26 days ago.
11/02/1941: HMS Snapper sailed from the Clyde to patrol in the Bay of Biscay. She was not heard from again:
27 days ago.
BAE Systems is to cut up to 230 jobs at its submarine site in Cumbria:
27 days ago.
Reputation of Collins class subs takes a further dive:
28 days ago.
Russia builds unique submarine:
28 days ago.
Malaysia's sole submarine suffered a technical defect that prevented it from diving for three months:
29 days ago.
Tail clutch (Forum Topic by Lofty):
29 days ago.
HMCS Victoria, in drydock in Esquimalt since 2003, is scheduled finally be undocked this coming summer: r
29 days ago.
French Boat the culprit for collison?? (Forum Topic by Stingray):
29 days ago.
9/2/1945 HMS Venturer torpedoed U-864. The only known incident where one sub sinks another while both submerged:
29 days ago.
Paint jobs for boats (by kazzer):
29 days ago.
Taiwan drops request for US subs:
29 days ago.
Substantial Trafalgar class RAMPs run back to back:
29 days ago.
Submarine "HMCS Victoria" shaping up (by torres1944):
30 days ago.
Power corrupts ? (by xbilgerat):
30 days ago.
Anti-nuclear group urge that British submarine HMS Sceptre be kept out of South African waters:
30 days ago.
China, S.Korea Flex Naval Muscle as U.S. Wanes (by xbilgerat):
30 days ago.
UN to discuss Air Traffic Control for outer space (by xbilgerat):
32 days ago.
GPS-guided torpedo kit (by torres1944):
32 days ago.
Death sentences without trial – a possibility for US citizens (by xbilgerat):
33 days ago.
Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video) (by xbilgerat):
33 days ago.
The Chinese Threat Below:
33 days ago.
Openly gay: The view from a US Navy submarine :
34 days ago.
What's up doc (by xbilgerat):
34 days ago.
Defence green paper confirms go ahead with a £20bn update of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent:
34 days ago.
DARPA's Robotic Ghost Ships Will Stalk Submarines:
35 days ago.
Gay people in the US services (by Lofty):
35 days ago.
Astute submarines are number one on a list of “Ten of the greatest British design classics”:
35 days ago.
US SSK Gato Class sunk in 1944, found (by torres1944):
36 days ago.
HMS Churchill's Class (by XDTO):
36 days ago.
More than 50 RN officers including three captains have been court martialled in the past 10 years:
36 days ago.
On This Day: 2/2/1903 1912 HMS A3 sank off Isle of Wight after collision with HMS Hazard:
36 days ago.
On This Day: 2/2/1903 Submarine HMS No 1 completed:
36 days ago.
Taiwan Navy maintains unidentified object not a Chinese submarine;
37 days ago.
Ukranian SSK "Zaporizhzhia" is beeing repaired in Sebastopol (by torres1944):
38 days ago.
A Chinese submarine crossed into territorial waters close to Taiwan's largest naval base last week:
38 days ago.
Model Submarine Painting Competition (by kazzer):
40 days ago.
The French Navy successfully carried out its first test-firing of an M51 ballistic missile launched from a submarine:
42 days ago.
RT @NavyNews: On 27 January 1942, USS Gudgeon (SS-211) became 1st US Navy sub to sink enemy submarine WWII action.
42 days ago.
February Branch Newsletter added (by Merlin):
43 days ago.
Austrailin Navy's Collins-class fleet reduced to one working submarine:
43 days ago.
HMS Ambush (by torres1944):
44 days ago.
Australia's sub-standard submarine fleet down to just one:
44 days ago.
Yard workers lobbied as they went to work in the escalating electioneering row over future submarines:
44 days ago.
Resurgam returns to Wirral:
44 days ago.
A fire broke out on board a £1bn submarine in Barrow last night.:
44 days ago.
Collins class submarine HMAS Farncomb undergoing repairs after one of its main generators failed last week:
45 days ago.
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The Ordeal of HMS C25
On 6 July 1918, a squadron of German seaplanes returning from a daylight raid on Lowestoft and Walmer, caught a Harwich-based British C-class submarine napping on the surface. When the boat was eventually towed into port she was literally a bloody shambles, her captain and nearly half her crew were dead and several others wounded. Yet, even this tragic event had its share of heroism.

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