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1954 - 1958: Stickleback Class

The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE Craft submarines.

The Royal Navy may have intended to use these craft to carry a 2 ton nuclear mine (based around the Red Beard weapon) into the approaches to the Soviet naval base at Kronstadt. The project was unsuccessful as there were problems finding and paying for the necessary fissile material.

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Comment by: David Marshall on April 15, 2023

The HMS Stickleback and Minow were named alongside HMS Maidstone in the 1950s. I was a Shipwright Tiffy aboard Maidstone at the time. The CO of the Stickleback came from Totland, Isle of Wight, and he took me to his sub in Portland and I went on board. I am now 90 years of age and remember it well.

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