| Built By: | Armstrong Whitworth (Tyne) |
| Build Group: | H21 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in November 1944 at Troon. |
| 1926: | Lieutenant | David Edward Gillespie Wemyss | |
| 1936: | Lieutenant | Christopher Haynes Hutchinson | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant | John Somerton Wraith | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant Commander | William Alexander Keith Napier Cavaye | |
| 1939: | Lieutenant | Hugh Stirling Mackenzie | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | William Richmond Fell | OBE |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | Ian Lachlan Mackay McGeoch | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | Hugo Rowland Barnwell Newton | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant Commander | Lawrence St George Rich | |
| 1940: | Lieutenant | George Robson Colvin | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Arthur Connuch Halliday | MID |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | Compton Patrick Norman | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | John Symons Huddart | |
| 1941: | Lieutenant | John Dennis Martin | |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Anthony Robert Profit | DSC MID |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Robert Boyd | DSC MID |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | Frederick Danford Gordon Challis | DSC MID |
| 1942: | Lieutenant Commander | Bruce John Bevis Andrew | DSC |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | John Philip Holroyde Oakley | DSC |
| 1942: | Lieutenant | John Charles Young Roxburgh | DSC |
| 1942: | Acting Lieutenant | Richard Percival Reed (RNR) | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Iwan Geoffrey Raikes | DSC |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | David Swanston | DSC |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Philip Henry May | MID |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Anthony Francis Murray-Johnson | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Charles Alexander Jacomb Nicholl | |
| 1943: | Lieutenant | Eric Allan Hamilton (RNR) | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Martin Douglas Hutley (RNR) | MID |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | Peter Minet Staveley | |
| 1944: | Lieutenant | William Patrick McLoughlin |
| 04-10-1917 | Laid Down |
| 03-02-1919 | Launched |
| 25-11-1919 | Completed |
| 07-10-1941 | AB Arthur Hall D/JX 208267 died. The circumstances of his death are not yet known but the Submarine Museum records indicate that he was a ‘buoy jumper’. He may have been drowned after falling in whilst either the Submarine was mooring to a buoy or slipping a mooring. He is noted as being buried in Londonderry, thus the Submarine may have been operating from that Port. |
This is a collection of stories written by George Rose about his time in the Royal Navy during World War II.
A candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live in one of the most extreme environments in the world.
Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast.
Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.
As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash.
But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song.
Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.
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This is a collection of stories written by George Rose about his time in the Royal Navy during World War II.
A candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live in one of the most extreme environments in the world.
Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking your head, where you have no idea of where in the world you are or what time of day it is, where you sleep in a coffin-sized bunk and sometimes eat a full roast for breakfast.
Now imagine sharing that world with 140 other sweaty bodies, crammed into a 430ft x 33ft steel tube, 300ft underwater, for up to 90 days at a time, with no possibility of escape. And to top it off, a sizeable chunk of your living space is taken up by the most formidably destructive nuclear weapons history has ever known. This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure.
As a restless and adventurous 18-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the submarine service in 1985 and went on to serve aboard the nuclear deterrent for five years at the end of the Cold War. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. Aside from the claustrophobia and disorientation, there were the prolonged periods of boredom, the constant dread of discovery by the Soviets, and the smorgasbord of rank odours that only a group of poorly-washed and flatulent submariners can unleash.
But even in this most pressurised of environments, the consolations were unique: where else could you sit peacefully for hours listening to whale song.
Based on first-hand experience, Under Pressure is the candid, visceral and incredibly entertaining account of what it's like to live, work, sleep, eat and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet.
17 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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