HMS Narwhal submarine (circa. 1960)
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2013
- A short film clip (3-min 10-sec) circa. 1960 featuring the Royal Navy submarine HMS Narwhal.
HMS Narwhal (S03) was a Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine launched in 1957. She was built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions and still building submarines for the Royal Navy). Equipped with 8 21-inch torpedo tubes (6 bow, 2 stern) the Porpoise-class carried a load of 24 Mk VIII "point-and-shoot" or Mark 24 Tigerfish guided torpedoes.
Narwhal had a 26-years service with the Royal Navy. She was withdrawn from active service in 1974 and remained in reserve until 1980 when she was deliberately sunk in Weymouth Bay during a submarine salvage exercise. She was later raised and sunk again as a target, approx. 15-miles south of Falmouth, in 1983. According to 'Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel' (Innes McCartney, 2003) her wreck is divable.
The submarine depot ship is HMS Adamant (A164). She was depot ship for 3rd Submarine Squadron at Rothesay Bay (1954-1957) and then at Gare Loch (1959-1962). She became depot ship for 2nd Submarine Squadron at Devonport in 1964 and paid off in 1966. Adamant was broken up at Inverkeithing in 1970. - Наука та технологія
Shit,brings back memories of happy times,if only people watching this could smell it as well.
''only 50 submarines''. Lord, if the narrator could see our fleet now.
They're a bit more expensive now, both the Russians and Americans only have 70 or so and you heard how many they had in 1960...
inflation has a big part of the costs, not just the complexity of current boats.
To be fair you could kill everyone on eart with one of them.
Technology isn't cheap boys specially warfare technology
@@hhuodod2209 not that sort of sub .
So Glad I found this video I served on Rorqual a sister boat LOEM motor room, It bought back so many happy memories and not so happy, the perisher was a nightmare, but the runs ashore were great.
The Porpoise-class boat was very highly thought of . They were one of the quietest subs underwater in the world at that time !
Mr. Bober, just wanted to say; recently subscribed and this is a real gold mine of fascinating footage to an interested layman such as me. My hat is well and truly off to you sir, keep it up.
Brought back many happy memories i also served on the Sealion
I served IN Oberon...its better..!
1.15 The noise of the diesels is so deafening the engineers have to wear earmuffs.
I had to smile when I heard this because I was on board HMS Alliance at Gosport over 35 years ago. When our party was in the engine room I asked the guide an ex - Submariner "What the noise was like when all the diesels were running?" His cheerful answer was "Bloody awful - how do you think I got these?" Indicating the cables going to the old-fashioned hearing aids he had in each ear, adding "Diesel ears".
No elf and safety in the services back then!
Better believe it as Auriga (my last boat) can testify after a battery explosion..!
ALLIANCE Was my first boat which is part of the Gosport Submarine Museum now. We had an explosion in the Med and about 5 lads stuck in the aft torpedo space. One called Arnold. We where at 300 feet and our Chief Stoker CPO Nottingham blew us to the surface. I was on the Auriga when they had the battery explosion on the surface off Gibraltar. Luckily for me I was in hospital in Gib. There were 2 soldiers from the Gloucester Regiment onboard. Had some great times onboard and ashore.
Cant believe that guard rail was left in place when diving...
Yeah, jst have something to do with the camera guy filming.
Nice comment! I never saw that before this photo on any boat.
this sub brings back memories for me my dad was posted in Gibralter in the seventies i went on this submarine in Gibralter where we lived i was only seven and can remember not being able to move the periscope happy times sad to hear it was sunk
Ahhh my dad was on this and the tiptoe and orpheus, thanks for this video 👍🏻
Mine too. Coxwain (cpo) T A Mead
Great clip. I was on a sister boat "Sealion".
John Tait Thank you for your service!
It's served IN
My father was on the sealion. 👍
What's the music played at the beginning?
One of the better P boat video no children telling what they done
You can see the oberon class roots in her cant you...
A164 HMS Adamant
Regards from Australia 🇦🇺.
old boat south America fantastico.live in Portugal now, spare room!!!!
Laziest dive I've ever seen.
Aussie Navy had Oberon class.
The O boats were the next class of subs after the P boats.
every rivet?
YOU HEARD THE MAN.
@@hangarrat I heard the man but I don't remember seeing a lot of rivets when I was on my boat.
@@dasboototto Well shit. I guess you’d know! You win this round good sir.
@@hangarrat The shitter door may have some rivets. I'd have to ask my friends. Its been a couple decades.
The current russian subs really scare me. One could obliterate the UK
And one Vanguard sub could obliterate Russia, but we have more functional SSBN’s than Russia does
@@tomsoki5738 There's also the American and French SSBNs. The UK has powerful friends. Russia just has "partners".
Fajny film