| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | Holland |
| Fate: | Foundered while on tow on 8th August 1912 off the NAB Tower whilst under tow to the breakers yard. |
| 04-02-1901 | Laid Down |
| 21-05-1902 | Launched |
| 19-01-1903 | Completed |
| 08-08-1912 | Foundered while on tow off the NAB Tower whilst under tow to the breakers yard. |
| Class: | 1963 - 1980: Dreadnought Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 1 |
| Fate: | |
| By the latter 1970's Dreadnought started to show signs of technical problems and was withdrawn from service under the 1981 defence review. She was laid up at Chatham and when this base was closed down in 1982 she was towed to Scotland on 13th April 1983. Decommissioned Rosyth | |
An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
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| Class: | 1963 - 1980: Dreadnought Class |
| Built By: | Vickers (Barrow) |
| Build Group: | SSN 1 |
| Fate: | |
| By the latter 1970's Dreadnought started to show signs of technical problems and was withdrawn from service under the 1981 defence review. She was laid up at Chatham and when this base was closed down in 1982 she was towed to Scotland on 13th April 1983. Decommissioned Rosyth | |
An intense dramatisation of a long-suppressed Cold War anecdote, K-19: The Widowmaker is the first big Hollywood film to view the conflict through a Soviet periscope, casting Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson (with slight accents) as patriotic Russians.
In 1961, as NATO deploys long-range nuclear attack submarines, the Kremlin forces the Russian Navy to follow suit, whether they're ready or not. Ford takes over from popular skipper Neeson in command of the eponymous submarine, riding the men hard through a missile test, and then coping with an escalating series of crises as a jerry-built reactor threatens to melt down (and perhaps start World War III).
Though the political specifics are fresh, this has all the expected elements of a sub movie, citing everything from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Das Boot to Crimson Tide and The Caine Mutiny as sailors bristle mutinously under a marine martinet. This, along with inept engineering and ideological interference, prompts disaster.
Director Kathryn Bigelow, the most undervalued talent in Hollywood, is in her element with heroic men under pressure, and a terrific central stretch has comrades trying to fix the reactor even though they've been given the wrong protective gear and start coming down with radiation sickness as they work.
13 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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