| 1900 | Shearwater 1900 - 1922 | Launched |
| 1910 | C 38 (I 68) | Launched |
| 1918 | D 7 (I 77) | D7 had a frightening experience when she was depth-charged by the destroyer HMS Pelican in a case of mistaken identity. Considerable damage was caused during the attack. Eventually the boat was able to surface and identify herself |
| 1937 | Porpoise (N 14) | Completed |
| 1943 | Unbending (P 37) | HMS Unbending torpedoes and damages the Italian passenger ship Carlo Margottini in the Adriatic Sea south of Antivari, Montenegro. |
| 1946 | Saga (P 257) | Collided with and sank the trawler Girl Lena in the English Channel |
| 1949 | Ursula (N 59) | Returned to RN having been transferred under the Lend-Lease to the Soviet Navy in 1944 and renamed V.4. Subsequently scrapped in May 1950 at Grangemouth. |
| 1961 | Walrus (S 08) | Completed |
| 1967 | Tally-Ho (P 317) | Scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales |
| 2025 | Audacious (S 122) | HMS Audacious was taken into number 15 dry dock in Devonport. She arrived in Plymouth on 1st April 2023 for a refit that necessitates work on her hull but work could not begin until facilities had been upgraded. |
Poseidon (N 99) |
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| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
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| Build Group: | P |
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Fate: Lost after a collision with SS Yuta off Wei-Hai-Wei in the Gulf of Korea 9th June 1931. |
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The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities.
Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valiant in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.
This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.
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Poseidon (N 99) |
|
| Class: | 1927 - 1946: Parthian Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | P |
|
Fate: Lost after a collision with SS Yuta off Wei-Hai-Wei in the Gulf of Korea 9th June 1931. |
|
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines, routinely tasked to hunt out and covertly follow Soviet submarines in order to destroy them should there be any outbreak of hostilities.
Dan Conley takes the reader through his early career in diesel submarines, prior to his transition to the complex and very demanding three-dimensional world of operating nuclear submarines; he describes the Royal Navy's shortcomings in ship and weapons procurement and delivers many insights into the procurement failures which led to the effective bankrupting of the Defence budget in the first decade of the 21st century. In command of the hunter killer submarines Courageous and Valiant in the 1980s, he achieved exceptional success against Soviet submarines at the height of the Cold War. He was also involved in the initial deployment of the Trident nuclear weapon system, and divulges hitherto un-revealed facets of nuclear weapons strategy and policy during this period.
This gripping read takes you onboard a nuclear submarine and into the depths of the ocean, and relays the excitement and apprehensions experienced by British submariners confronted by a massive Soviet Navy.
13 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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