Submariners AssociationBarrow in Furness Branch
Latest News
| Problems with the indians SSKs (Forum Topic by torres1944): LINK about 17 hours ago. |
| BAE Systems Barrow boss on future of shipyard: LINK 1 day ago. |
| Navy sex scandal fears as women are set to be allowed to serve in RN submarines: LINK 2 days ago. |
| Norway to postpone plan to raise German submarine wreck: LINK 6 days ago. |
| Russia successfully tests a Sineva missile from a submarine: LINK 6 days ago. |
| Last T-class refit draws to a close: LINK 7 days ago. |
| 4/3/1942: Lt Cdr Anthony Cecil Chapel Miers DSO RN earned a VC whilst on patrol in HM Submarine Torbay: LINK 7 days ago. |
| Barrow sub Astute 'faults' claim (Forum Topic by xbilgerat): LINK 7 days ago. |
| Captain of Astute defends against claims it had 'serious faults' during sea trials and worried the crew: LINK 7 days ago. |
| 03/03/1971 - HMS Dreadnought became the first British submarine to surface at the North Pole: LINK 8 days ago. |
| Chinese SSBN "Jin" Class with tubes opened (Forum Topic by torres1944): LINK 8 days ago. |
| Americans Foresee U.S. Military Decline Ahead (Forum Topic by xbilgerat): LINK 8 days ago. |
| Medals galore (Forum Topic by Lofty): LINK 9 days ago. |
| Thinking about the Unthinkable: USA and Iran Deal? (Forum Topic by torres1944): LINK 9 days ago. |
| HMS Visigoth (Forum Topic by Maurice): LINK 9 days ago. |
| Swedish Gov' approves initiation of design phase for new generation submarines for Royal Swedish Navy: LINK 9 days ago. |
| 02/03/1918: The steamer Rutherglen rammed & sank HMS H5 believing the submarine to be a U-boat: LINK 9 days ago. |
| Navy’s plan to reduce submarine fleet by will render it unable to meet critical requirements say lawmakers: LINK 10 days ago. |
| Astute captain defends £1bn vessel despite technical problems: LINK 10 days ago. |
| Links for Twitter or Facebook users (Forum Topic by Merlin): LINK 11 days ago. |
| March Branch Newsletter Added (Forum Topic by Merlin): LINK 11 days ago. |
| 1 killed, 2 wounded in Indian submarine fire: LINK 12 days ago. |
| China is concerned by the buildup of ASEAN submarine fleets in seas bordering China: LINK 12 days ago. |
| Fire in indian SSK: one sailor killed and two injured (Forum Topic by torres1944): LINK 13 days ago. |
| US Navy SEALs' new airlock minisub - made in Blighty: LINK 13 days ago. |
| Are the MOD going to sanction females for submarine service? (Forum Topic by polto): LINK 13 days ago. |
| Kockums to Design Sweden‘s Next-Generation Submarine: LINK 13 days ago. |
| 25/02/1880: Resurgam, the worlds first mechanically-driven submarine sank whilst being towed to Portsmouth: LINK 14 days ago. |
| RT @NavyLookout: Royal Navy could follow USN lead as allow women to serve on submarines LINK 14 days ago. |
| Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft tests submarine battery cells on board catamaran: LINK 14 days ago. |
| RT @NavyTimes: Pentagon announces end of ban on women on subs LINK 15 days ago. |
| Ex-army chief’s comments spark Trident controversy: LINK 15 days ago. |
| Venezuela calls for removal of submarine platform in Falkland Islands: LINK 16 days ago. |
| 23/02/1942 HMS P38 was lost during an attack on a convoy off Tripoli: LINK 16 days ago. |
| Trials for 'KD Tunku Abdul Rahman' today (Forum Topic by xbilgerat): LINK 17 days ago. |
| The MoD plans to use the Devonport dockyard as a centre for dismantling nuclear submarines: LINK 17 days ago. |
| KD Tunku Abdul Rahman's much delayed trials start after engineers certify the submarine is safe to dive: LINK 17 days ago. |
| "Fire at scrapped nuclear sub in north Russia extinguished - RIA Novosti" - LINK 19 days ago. |
| Commander Dewhurst and Rorqual. (Forum Topic by cornwallis): LINK 19 days ago. |
| "New Submarine Project Office to be formed - Australian Defence Magazine" - LINK 20 days ago. |
| On the 18/02/1871, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was registered as a company and began trading: LINK 21 days ago. |
| Astute sets sail for first diving trials at sea: LINK 22 days ago. |
| Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana (Forum Topic by xbilgerat): LINK 22 days ago. |
| 17/2/1864: First torpedo attack by Hunley, explosion so great that sub also blew up killing all on board: LINK 22 days ago. |
| India's Arihant nuclear-powered submarine to be armed with ballistic missiles, LINK 22 days ago. |
| The real 007s ? (Forum Topic by xbilgerat): LINK 22 days ago. |
| death of relative (Forum Topic by clang): LINK 23 days ago. |
| Great Exercise ASW "Noble Manta 2010" (Forum Topic by torres1944): LINK 24 days ago. |
| Chinese salvage HMS Poseidon ? (Forum Topic by Frank Dutton): LINK 25 days ago. |
| RT @Australian_Navy: 14 Feb 1990: Keel laying ceremony for Navy submarine HMAS Collins held: LINK 25 days ago. |
| 13/2/1942 tHMS Tempest depth charged & forced to surface. Italians botched the rescue & just 24 survived: LINK 26 days ago. |
| The CIA has revealed details about secret Cold War-era project to raise a sunken Soviet submarine: LINK 26 days ago. |
| HMS Osiris 1982 (Forum Topic by Marcantilan): LINK 27 days ago. |
| 11/02/1941: HMS Snapper sailed from the Clyde to patrol in the Bay of Biscay. She was not heard from again: LINK 28 days ago. |
| BAE Systems is to cut up to 230 jobs at its submarine site in Cumbria: LINK 28 days ago. |
| Reputation of Collins class subs takes a further dive: LINK 29 days ago. |
| Russia builds unique submarine: LINK 29 days ago. |
| Malaysia's sole submarine suffered a technical defect that prevented it from diving for three months: LINK 29 days ago. |
| Tail clutch (Forum Topic by Lofty): LINK 30 days ago. |
| HMCS Victoria, in drydock in Esquimalt since 2003, is scheduled finally be undocked this coming summer: r LINK 30 days ago. |
| French Boat the culprit for collison?? (Forum Topic by Stingray): LINK 30 days ago. |
| 9/2/1945 HMS Venturer torpedoed U-864. The only known incident where one sub sinks another while both submerged: LINK 30 days ago. |
| Paint jobs for boats (by kazzer): LINK 30 days ago. |
| Taiwan drops request for US subs: LINK 30 days ago. |
| Substantial Trafalgar class RAMPs run back to back: LINK 30 days ago. |
| Submarine "HMCS Victoria" shaping up (by torres1944): LINK 31 days ago. |
| Power corrupts ? (by xbilgerat): LINK 31 days ago. |
| Anti-nuclear group urge that British submarine HMS Sceptre be kept out of South African waters: LINK 31 days ago. |
| China, S.Korea Flex Naval Muscle as U.S. Wanes (by xbilgerat): LINK 31 days ago. |
| UN to discuss Air Traffic Control for outer space (by xbilgerat): LINK 32 days ago. |
| GPS-guided torpedo kit (by torres1944): LINK 33 days ago. |
| Death sentences without trial – a possibility for US citizens (by xbilgerat): LINK 33 days ago. |
| Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video) (by xbilgerat): LINK 34 days ago. |
| The Chinese Threat Below: LINK 34 days ago. |
| Openly gay: The view from a US Navy submarine : LINK 34 days ago. |
| What's up doc (by xbilgerat): LINK 35 days ago. |
| Defence green paper confirms go ahead with a £20bn update of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent: LINK 35 days ago. |
| DARPA's Robotic Ghost Ships Will Stalk Submarines: LINK 35 days ago. |
| Gay people in the US services (by Lofty): LINK 35 days ago. |
| Astute submarines are number one on a list of “Ten of the greatest British design classics”: LINK 36 days ago. |
| US SSK Gato Class sunk in 1944, found (by torres1944): LINK 37 days ago. |
| HMS Churchill's Class (by XDTO): LINK 37 days ago. |
| More than 50 RN officers including three captains have been court martialled in the past 10 years: LINK 37 days ago. |
| On This Day: 2/2/1903 1912 HMS A3 sank off Isle of Wight after collision with HMS Hazard: LINK 37 days ago. |
| On This Day: 2/2/1903 Submarine HMS No 1 completed: LINK 37 days ago. |
| Taiwan Navy maintains unidentified object not a Chinese submarine; LINK 38 days ago. |
| Ukranian SSK "Zaporizhzhia" is beeing repaired in Sebastopol (by torres1944): LINK 39 days ago. |
| A Chinese submarine crossed into territorial waters close to Taiwan's largest naval base last week: LINK 39 days ago. |
| Model Submarine Painting Competition (by kazzer): LINK 41 days ago. |
| The French Navy successfully carried out its first test-firing of an M51 ballistic missile launched from a submarine: LINK 43 days ago. |
| RT @NavyNews: On 27 January 1942, USS Gudgeon (SS-211) became 1st US Navy sub to sink enemy submarine WWII action. LINK 43 days ago. |
| February Branch Newsletter added (by Merlin): LINK 44 days ago. |
| Austrailin Navy's Collins-class fleet reduced to one working submarine: LINK 44 days ago. |
| HMS Ambush (by torres1944): LINK 45 days ago. |
| Australia's sub-standard submarine fleet down to just one: LINK 45 days ago. |
| Yard workers lobbied as they went to work in the escalating electioneering row over future submarines: LINK 45 days ago. |
| Resurgam returns to Wirral: LINK 45 days ago. |