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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | O2a |
| Fate: | |
| Sold October 1991 to the Warships Preservation Trust at Liverpool and despite several subsequent groups trying to preserve her Onyx was towed away from her berth at Barrow to begin her journey to the scrapyard on June 12, 2013 | |
One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence.
John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won).
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | O2a |
| Fate: | |
| Sold October 1991 to the Warships Preservation Trust at Liverpool and despite several subsequent groups trying to preserve her Onyx was towed away from her berth at Barrow to begin her journey to the scrapyard on June 12, 2013 | |
One of the great untold stories of the British services is that of the Royal Navy Submarine Service which entered the fray in World War I with 100 underwater craft. Through World War II, where submariners' prospects of returning safely from a mission were only 50:50, the Falklands conflict and the sinking of the Belgrano, to present-day elite machines, the Silent Service has played an enormous part in British defence.
John Parker's in-depth investigation is very much personality led with diaries from the early part of the century to substantial first-person testimony from survivors of wartime heroics (when many VCs were won).
15 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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