@YDMF FAYDF ohhh ur one of those... ok i get it, think what you will, i myself like to mind my own goddamn business, you do you... p.s. great sense of humor man, u must be fun at parties
@YDMF FAYDF to make a fucking joke, little did i know i was dealing with a neanderthal, and here we are, i can only hope all this rage will give u a stroke mate
I really enjoy watching these LAL clips, but they do make me realise what an old man I am. 1960 seems so recent to me, but working it out that it was sixty odd years ago made my eyes water. Thanks PuliosVids for posting.
Definitely a recruiting film compared to my time in boats, 63 onward. Greatest time of my life, nothing has comes close. My daughter reckon i was born in the best era, 1944, music, cold war patrols "mystery trips" etc. All the Med, Malta based, North Africa etc. Thanks for the memories, sincerely.
I was in the US Submarine service in '68 in Key West, FL. The HMS Walrus stopped by for about a week. Great bunch of blokes and they still had daily rations back then. One of the guys offered to trade my pea coat for his submarine sweater. To this day I still wish I had done that deal.
Those were the days. Misery. Weapons loads in the middle of the night when it's tipping down. Happiness. When the freezer broke down and you had to eat all the ice cream in one go!
The father of my flatmate at uni was a WW2 submariner. He said the weirdest thing was the visual purple in your eyes getting knackered, so when you came up it took time to see colours right.
Makes me feel proud that blokes like this were doing that when I was just being born. I went on to serve my country on land as an Infantryman. No where near as skilled as these officers and men. Would have loved to do something like that in that time.
Commander Ken Frewer, who has died aged 87, was one of the first of a new elite in the Royal Navy who commanded nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-armed submarines - April 2018. He also played Scalextric onboard with crewmen...
I remember seeing those subs rotting in the scrapyard by Portsea Island bridge for years. It was kinda sad when they went as they were a local landmark.
To think I was only 3 when this sub and her crew were filmed.But looking at all that clever technology, for the time, its amazing ! These guys are a special bunch !!
@@bnap3221 Indeed- but it is easy to mock the "look at life" short films for their cheery propoganda and narrative style, very much of their time. I love them, but they are not exactly presenting their subject matter in a modern documentary way, warts and all.
HMS Narwhal had an incident in which she ran aground at the entrance of Campbeltown Loch the same year this film came out. 25 years later, the British sank her as a target ship in the English Channel.
_"25 years later, the British sank her as a target ship in the English Channel."_ With all hands aboard? Damn. It probably wasn't even the same crew that ran her aground! Even for the British Navy, that's strict!
It did feel really unusual when he said that but Russia has gone down from 500 to 60 in the same amount of time and USA as gone from 250 to 70 so guess it is natural that the number will go down since they getting more expensive to make but it definitely has to do with budget cuts hopefully will hit that number again in the future but it is unlikely
10 is ample for a country of our size considering a modern sub, even an attack sub, can level a small town with cruise missiles. Also a WW2 boat could leave with 10 torpedoes and miss with every one of them whereas an Astute with 10 Spearfish torpedoes has 10 guaranteed kills unless the enemy is using magic.
@@yaraelpoof7242 "Russia" was soviet union back then, lol. I don't think UK lost that much land and army personnel with tech units since its "fall". Also, 500 included diesel subs, after we changed to nuclear powered subs its obvious that the number will go down. On another thing, not like brits need more than 10. Not like anyone would want this shitty island anyways.
@@helenaprimera516 I know Russia was the soviet Union back in the day I just called it Russia because in the video they did and defence spending has gone down
I have been inside a few submarines at Portsmouth. The inner passages were glittering with clean welded non-ferrous pipes (e.g. copper) I did not find any smell of diesel. The captain was well-dressed and well-groomed, and very courteous!
Recently saw an old fashioned submarine film in which the cook had a large oven, drops down the front, pulls out some meat and starts basting it, then shoves it back it. The most amusing piece of footage I have ever seen, and could well have done being in Airplane
My eldest used to live in the old navy quarters up at Sandbanks on the Holy Loch, now further down in Dunoon but she loves taking my granddaughter to go watch the navy craft going through. Had three uncles on HMS Warspite, at the same time too in the 70's and they never knew they were related by marriage til the silver jubilee street party we had and all three turned up and got riproaringly drunk too.
Loved this! I grew up next to the underwater training and testing range used by our Royal Navy and other NATO navies. Seeing submarines and torpedos was normal for me as a kid and when I left school I worked for the MoD at the shore base. I was born in the late 70s and the Cold War had pretty much fizzled out when I worked at the base. Look at the world now though - it’s gone nuts again and I’m glad we have Trident submarines to protect us.👍🏻
For those that don't know and are interested in LaL shorts. There's a channel in the Virgin TV pack called "Talking Pictures", this channel regularly shows LaL shorts plus old Government awareness programmes as well.
That's the first i've seen Faslane before the first expansion, We moved to Ghead in 66 (I was one) as my Dad had finished his training for the MOD Police. It's changed a bit since those days though.
Diesel boats had to go to periscope depth quite often, to recharge the batteries, the snort mast would be raised to change the air in the boat at every opportunity
And people complain about being locked down in the house with internet, Netflix, supermarket booze and loads of comfort. You wouldn't last a weekend on a submarine, these submariners are a different breed
@@UKPete Hmm, I assumed baked beans were on every British menu. I have to shop at a special store here to get Heinz baked beans made in UK. I love 'em!
@@civlyzed I think Baked Beans are part of a full English Breakfast but due to the highly volatile gassy consequence of eating them they would be left off the menu especially on a submarine. :-)
No wonder they get special pay for submariner crews, very confined and you have to be on good terms with everyone. Would have been a busy comms rooms to in those days as Cold War was on. You could tip a guy over the edge by playing "We all live in a Yellow Submarine" on board eh? I seem to recall that bunks were shared on a rotation basis on many submarines? One goes on watch and another jumps in the same bunk for his kip. Great video of a proud service! Thank you.
My father Vincent Coyle was one of the designers and a nuclear engineer for the United States Navy at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery Maine USA for over 53 years he helped design and build many nuclear and non-nuclear submarines for the United States Navy along with the experimental sub Albacore. The albacore was and still is the fastest diesel submarine in the world my father also helped design the deep sea rescue vessel along with many upgrades and redesigns of the US submarines originally the thresher was not to have a sail through experimenting way before computers found out that she would corkscrew through the water because of the torque of her engines the last boat he designed was the"Sand Lance" a nuclear fast attack submarine that carried nuclear torpedoes and was capable of speeds well over 40 knots submerged he also continue to make a better living area for the crew over the years he retiring in 1979.
I can't believe I've only just worked out what use the sail is, as I've thought for years that they could remove it altogether or at the very least just have a stump instead of an enormous sail, but it makes sense the torque would just spin the boat if the sail wasn't there.
@@krashd most of the world doesn't realize that the sail houses the two periscopes VHF UHF high-gain antennas the snorkel so they can exchange the air if necessary and four or five other things all jammed up in there but the sail also acts as a stabilizing fin. the tremendous horsepower the seawolf-class submarines have three nuclear reactors producing a boat 45000 horsepower each and with-rotating propellers that are highly guarded Secret I cannot tell you the exact speed but I do know that one left Sicily Italy and arrived in New York Harbor 71 hours later .that was a fast attack boat
IIRC the Sand Lance was the last boat constructed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Portsmouth was my last duty station. The boat that I was on went there for an overhaul and re-fueling in 1984.
When the lads first moved from diesel to nuclear it must have been incredible. Suddenly much more space and endless amounts of electricity and fresh water
Why would nuclear equal more space? Subs generally just got larger over time, I don't think the switchover had anything to do with it unless I'm just unaware of one of nuclear power's features.
@@krashd , my old man did 22 years in HM Submarines right through from little diesel electrics to Bombers, nuclear powered missile boats. Technology made a lot of the gadgets smaller, the hulls got bigger to accommodate the armament, batteries and propulsion machinery that took up a lot of room were replaced with relatively small reactors. He reckons he spent his final years in comparative luxury.
@@saltyseadawg4768 Nuclear missiles did require enlarging the boats, and I don't mean in the obvious way of lengthening the boat. I thought the other guy suggested that moving to nuclear propulsion made the subs bigger but I'm not really aware of how it would have, but I do know that building bombers required massively enlarging the boats' diameter as Polaris missiles were almost 9 metres in length and so to accommodate them our missile subs had to have a beam of 10 metres. A massive improvement on the typical 6 metres of earlier subs and enough room for a sub to have three quite spacious floors inside it. 8.4 metre long Polaris missiles in the guts of the sub suddenly meant much deeper and wider subs and lots of extra space to stow things. your dad definitely would have noticed a difference in comfort.
No they're not. The porpoises were the class before the O boats. Pretty much identical to the naked eye, the O's were slightly longer and had different equipment and slightly le3ss standard crew. The main difference was that a different type of steel was used in the construction of the pressure hull allowing them to dive de3eper. They also came out a little heavier than the Porpoise class.
My friend Timothy Melhuish RN died in Sept 23 he was a nav officer on diesel elec subs. He was later commercial Director of Vosper Thorneycroft. Did anyone out there serve with him????
Interesting that non of the officers or ratings are wearing Dolphins or its predecessor the red "sausage on a stick" The SM Dolphins I wore did not come in until 1972 I think - the same year I did my first week at sea on HMS Alliance (the museum boat in Gosport). The boats also sport white Pennant numbers. This was eventually phased out as, I believe, they were visible from the air in clear waters.
I’ve heard on diesel boats everything and everybody eventually gets covered in diesel grime. The movies from the U boat era show filthy crew and filthy conditions. Must have been part of the tradition. When nuclear boats came into service they obviously cleaned up their act.
When it comes to bravery, submariners make cave divers look like stay-at-home Mamma's boys... They didn't pay enough to get me into one of those things when I was in the Navy & I admire those who do because the lack of space (& windows!) can't be over-emphasized enough.
@@skylongskylong1982 sounds bad but i googled it turns out... Uk has 11, Us has 71 Russia has 33 I could only find comparisons for nuclear subs but proportionally we have more than in 1960
@Fire Starter Bollocks. There's a reason it is called the independent deterrent... We couldn't fire the first batch of Polaris missiles without alerting the US first and seeking their co-operation but the later Polaris missiles and both Trident programs have been 100% under our own control. A widely debunked myth that still seems to do the rounds.
Except they were Oberon's - one of the best diesel electric boats, Not Porpoises. Oh and they were bought new from the manufacturer. Two from two isn't bad.
As a non-smoker those were the bad old days. Especially when people were smoking in an enclosed space. I was able to wipe the residue from the cigarette smoke off of the computer frames in Missile Control Center. The smell of the submarine was bad enough. Adding in the stink of burning tobacco just made it that much worse.
1.17 minute.... Smoking a cigarette, while loading a torpedo inside the sub... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the good old days. Lol
in italy i literally saw a guy loading propane tanks on the back of a pickup with a cig in his mouth
You can still smoke in shaft alley.
@YDMF FAYDF theres no more of them cuz they all died in health and safety accidents
@YDMF FAYDF ohhh ur one of those... ok i get it, think what you will, i myself like to mind my own goddamn business, you do you...
p.s. great sense of humor man, u must be fun at parties
@YDMF FAYDF to make a fucking joke, little did i know i was dealing with a neanderthal, and here we are, i can only hope all this rage will give u a stroke mate
"They left in sunshine and came back in cold and rain." So, the same day then.
🤣
All before lunch.
That's Faslane weather for you.
I really enjoy watching these LAL clips, but they do make me realise what an old man I am. 1960 seems so recent to me, but working it out that it was sixty odd years ago made my eyes water. Thanks PuliosVids for posting.
Yes, most ppl in this video are dead, if not probably in diapers again. Soon we will be dead too. It's less troubling than bein alive they say.
@@MrSvenovitch probably fun to be alive in a million dollar submarine ?
I was on diesel P & O boats of the 1970's. Slept on a torpedo rack and smoked next to 500 pound Mk8 torpedo ..happy days (Rorqual)
Definitely a recruiting film compared to my time in boats, 63 onward. Greatest time of my life, nothing has comes close. My daughter reckon i was born in the best era, 1944, music, cold war patrols "mystery trips" etc. All the Med, Malta based, North Africa etc. Thanks for the memories, sincerely.
There’s no way I could live on a submarine. Respect.
I was in the US Submarine service in '68 in Key West, FL. The HMS Walrus stopped by for about a week. Great bunch of blokes and they still had daily rations back then. One of the guys offered to trade my pea coat for his submarine sweater. To this day I still wish I had done that deal.
Those were the days. Misery. Weapons loads in the middle of the night when it's tipping down. Happiness. When the freezer broke down and you had to eat all the ice cream in one go!
oh the misery of a brain freeze
Hahaha 🏴☠️
The father of my flatmate at uni was a WW2 submariner. He said the weirdest thing was the visual purple in your eyes getting knackered, so when you came up it took time to see colours right.
Far out, were red and blue affected as well?
@@InfamousMedia Visual purple (IIRC) is just the name for the stuff in your retina.
I presume it was similar to how on a sunny day, you can see barely anything once you go outside and vice versa??
My late father was an RN submariner from 1941-1951 when he changed to serve topside. He served on Venturer, Alaric, Springer, and Trump.
wouldn't want to serve on the Trump
The trump was equipped with screen doors.
My dad was on HMS Grampus at this time, this was a special insight for me.
Makes me feel proud that blokes like this were doing that when I was just being born. I went on to serve my country on land as an Infantryman. No where near as skilled as these officers and men. Would have loved to do something like that in that time.
Commander Ken Frewer, who has died aged 87, was one of the first of a new elite in the Royal Navy who commanded nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-armed submarines - April 2018. He also played Scalextric onboard with crewmen...
I remember seeing those subs rotting in the scrapyard by Portsea Island bridge for years. It was kinda sad when they went as they were a local landmark.
Having a cig loading the torpedoes, strong moves
To think I was only 3 when this sub and her crew were filmed.But looking at all that clever technology, for the time, its amazing ! These guys are a special bunch !!
They seem healthy vs people today
The food though fried looked plentiful
My food in the late 60s was so much less
If I was lucky two sausage a week
@@somethingelse4878 Having been a submariner I can safely say that the "Silent Service" gets the best food of all the services.
@@somethingelse4878 Yeah, me too, all I remember eating is, corn flakes, rice and spare ribs,
@@GrahamWalters I can well believe that !
Peak Cold War, too. I expect they spent a lot of time sniffing around Russian waters.
Easy to mock, but I wouldn't do their job for all the tea in China-then or now. Brave men, who sacrifice much. Submariners are a special bunch.
Flashman is a great book
Not easy for me to mock, I have respect for British sailors
@@bnap3221 Indeed- but it is easy to mock the "look at life" short films for their cheery propoganda and narrative style, very much of their time. I love them, but they are not exactly presenting their subject matter in a modern documentary way, warts and all.
Never trust a submariner who asks you to take a shufti out of a porthole.......
Yeah 40 singles leave and 20 couples come back 😄
My dad served with the 4th Submarine Flotilla at Sydney when he met my mother station at HMAS Watson she was a WRAN Radar Plotter.
the most sea worthy beard I've ever seen
HMS Narwhal had an incident in which she ran aground at the entrance of Campbeltown Loch the same year this film came out. 25 years later, the British sank her as a target ship in the English Channel.
_"25 years later, the British sank her as a target ship in the English Channel."_ With all hands aboard? Damn. It probably wasn't even the same crew that ran her aground! Even for the British Navy, that's strict!
@@Matt_from_Florida hey, the Royal Navy have been known to shoot their own admirals on the deck for not being aggressive enough, so......🤷🏼♂️
Thanks. Wondered what the boat's fate was.
RIP to the cameraman who was left up on the deck as they submerged
All in a day's work
It was the 1960 version of a Go-Pro.
@@ArmyJames Nice one.
@@ArmyJames In those days you had to pay the ultimate price for the perfect shot
@@ArmyJames The cameraman was a professional, and he went.
Brave men doing a job that many are frightened to do .
And most Submariners don't blame those who don't want to do it.
What a beard that officer has! Such an entertaining newsreel.
That officer is a chief Petty Officer, the salt of the navy.
He was a chief, buttons on his sleeve.
Loved this series .
“We barely have 50 submarines now”...... those were the days. We barely have 10 now.
It did feel really unusual when he said that but Russia has gone down from 500 to 60 in the same amount of time and USA as gone from 250 to 70 so guess it is natural that the number will go down since they getting more expensive to make but it definitely has to do with budget cuts hopefully will hit that number again in the future but it is unlikely
10 is ample for a country of our size considering a modern sub, even an attack sub, can level a small town with cruise missiles. Also a WW2 boat could leave with 10 torpedoes and miss with every one of them whereas an Astute with 10 Spearfish torpedoes has 10 guaranteed kills unless the enemy is using magic.
@@yaraelpoof7242 The UK could definitely afford another 10 or so.
@@yaraelpoof7242 "Russia" was soviet union back then, lol. I don't think UK lost that much land and army personnel with tech units since its "fall". Also, 500 included diesel subs, after we changed to nuclear powered subs its obvious that the number will go down.
On another thing, not like brits need more than 10. Not like anyone would want this shitty island anyways.
@@helenaprimera516 I know Russia was the soviet Union back in the day I just called it Russia because in the video they did and defence spending has gone down
Total silence and The periscope screams like a Banshee! :-)
So true!
They must be silent as the grave, not a noise to be made, even tiptoeing around in rubber shoes lest they be detected!
Periscope: WaaAaAAHhhWaWaha!!
“They must be silent as the grave...” Guitars playing in background.
Lol
Vans...slip ons
@@s.porter8646 Skate shoes? I wouldn't imagine there would be enough room onboard for much skateboarding. Flatland maybe, but still a push...
@@rockstarJDP hahahah, torpedo room man, its a half pipe
I have been inside a few submarines at Portsmouth. The inner passages were glittering with clean welded non-ferrous pipes (e.g. copper) I did not find any smell of diesel. The captain was well-dressed and well-groomed, and very courteous!
Priceless 🏴☠️
Recently saw an old fashioned submarine film in which the cook had a large oven, drops down the front, pulls out some meat and starts basting it, then shoves it back it. The most amusing piece of footage I have ever seen, and could well have done being in Airplane
My eldest used to live in the old navy quarters up at Sandbanks on the Holy Loch, now further down in Dunoon but she loves taking my granddaughter to go watch the navy craft going through. Had three uncles on HMS Warspite, at the same time too in the 70's and they never knew they were related by marriage til the silver jubilee street party we had and all three turned up and got riproaringly drunk too.
Loved this! I grew up next to the underwater training and testing range used by our Royal Navy and other NATO navies. Seeing submarines and torpedos was normal for me as a kid and when I left school I worked for the MoD at the shore base. I was born in the late 70s and the Cold War had pretty much fizzled out when I worked at the base. Look at the world now though - it’s gone nuts again and I’m glad we have Trident submarines to protect us.👍🏻
You have to admire those diesel boat sailors. I did my tour on an US SSBN.
For those that don't know and are interested in LaL shorts. There's a channel in the Virgin TV pack called "Talking Pictures", this channel regularly shows LaL shorts plus old Government awareness programmes as well.
I am an Italian old submariner. Smoking aboard Italian submarines was banned in 1984, severely limiting the operational capacity of submarine.
I'll take shore duty, thanks!
-From Groton, CT with Love!
Woohoo! Go Submarine Service! Thanks for keeping us safe chaps!
Well generally they only keep ships safe
Video quality is excellent.
I wonce was at that very place being shown around a submarine. I was in the army cadets . It was amazing
That's the first i've seen Faslane before the first expansion, We moved to Ghead in 66 (I was one) as my Dad had finished his training for the MOD Police. It's changed a bit since those days though.
Fascinating. Thanks for posting these.
This film has been approved for family viewing.
”English Electric”
Written prominently to remind the crew of their mortality.
"Fresh frozen food" i could not hold my laugh
Gordon would be furious...!!!
@@jslfcs6655 lol so true
I note that many are smoking, even pipes underway under water.
Diesel boats had to go to periscope depth quite often, to recharge the batteries, the snort mast would be raised to change the air in the boat at every opportunity
And people complain about being locked down in the house with internet, Netflix, supermarket booze and loads of comfort. You wouldn't last a weekend on a submarine, these submariners are a different breed
I just love the intro music, like the Love Boat but under the sea, full of nuclear weapons and no way out.
UMMM you dont know much about P and O boats do you ?
@@gowdsake7103 Apparently I know as much as you about humor.
Silent running must be a relief from engine noise..
Subs are powered by electric motors. They only run the diesels to charge the batteries.
Takes a special kind of person to be a submariner.
1:32 cooler than any hipster ever.
For sure. No coffeeshop or craft brew hipster would ever have 1/10 the balls of these men.
60 years later an the galley is running the same menu 🤣
I bet baked beans was never on a Sub's menu!
@@UKPete Hmm, I assumed baked beans were on every British menu. I have to shop at a special store here to get Heinz baked beans made in UK. I love 'em!
@@civlyzed I think Baked Beans are part of a full English Breakfast but due to the highly volatile gassy consequence of eating them they would be left off the menu especially on a submarine. :-)
@@UKPete Oh man, I didn't consider the fart factor!
@MichaelKingsfordGray Wow.
respect to the men who go out on subs.
HMS Narwhal was sunk as a target in 1985 apparently.
No wonder they get special pay for submariner crews, very confined and you have to be on good terms with everyone. Would have been a busy comms rooms to in those days as Cold War was on. You could tip a guy over the edge by playing "We all live in a Yellow Submarine" on board eh? I seem to recall that bunks were shared on a rotation basis on many submarines? One goes on watch and another jumps in the same bunk for his kip. Great video of a proud service! Thank you.
Hot bunking
@@josephturner4047 I imagine scabies was very common among sailors of that era.
its clled hot bunking
Great old sub the obrian class regards and respect from Australia, we come silent.
The Oberon the best Wayne! Peter from sydney cheers
True words Peter great old stink boats lol
My father Vincent Coyle was one of the designers and a nuclear engineer for the United States Navy at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery Maine USA for over 53 years he helped design and build many nuclear and non-nuclear submarines for the United States Navy along with the experimental sub Albacore. The albacore was and still is the fastest diesel submarine in the world my father also helped design the deep sea rescue vessel along with many upgrades and redesigns of the US submarines originally the thresher was not to have a sail through experimenting way before computers found out that she would corkscrew through the water because of the torque of her engines the last boat he designed was the"Sand Lance" a nuclear fast attack submarine that carried nuclear torpedoes and was capable of speeds well over 40 knots submerged he also continue to make a better living area for the crew over the years he retiring in 1979.
I can't believe I've only just worked out what use the sail is, as I've thought for years that they could remove it altogether or at the very least just have a stump instead of an enormous sail, but it makes sense the torque would just spin the boat if the sail wasn't there.
@@krashd most of the world doesn't realize that the sail houses the two periscopes VHF UHF high-gain antennas the snorkel so they can exchange the air if necessary and four or five other things all jammed up in there but the sail also acts as a stabilizing fin. the tremendous horsepower the seawolf-class submarines have three nuclear reactors producing a boat 45000 horsepower each and with-rotating propellers that are highly guarded Secret I cannot tell you the exact speed but I do know that one left Sicily Italy and arrived in New York Harbor 71 hours later .that was a fast attack boat
IIRC the Sand Lance was the last boat constructed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Portsmouth was my last duty station. The boat that I was on went there for an overhaul and re-fueling in 1984.
What did they use for a toilet ?
I love the way the commander didn’t even kiss his wife goodbye .
Don't worry the milkman will make sure she isn't going short
@@gedtaylor4773 or the mailman
Still tongue tied from the night before
thats so very british lol
almost expected them to hand shake
That was 1960 things are totally different now we don't have milkmen nowadays so the postie gets the lions share
Капитан в костюме и галстуке это настолько необычно и прекрасно! А почему бы и нет
When the lads first moved from diesel to nuclear it must have been incredible. Suddenly much more space and endless amounts of electricity and fresh water
unless the fresh water becomes contaminated or youre somewhere sneaky and fresh water is put out of use
Why would nuclear equal more space? Subs generally just got larger over time, I don't think the switchover had anything to do with it unless I'm just unaware of one of nuclear power's features.
@@krashd , my old man did 22 years in HM Submarines right through from little diesel electrics to Bombers, nuclear powered missile boats. Technology made a lot of the gadgets smaller, the hulls got bigger to accommodate the armament, batteries and propulsion machinery that took up a lot of room were replaced with relatively small reactors. He reckons he spent his final years in comparative luxury.
@@saltyseadawg4768 Nuclear missiles did require enlarging the boats, and I don't mean in the obvious way of lengthening the boat. I thought the other guy suggested that moving to nuclear propulsion made the subs bigger but I'm not really aware of how it would have, but I do know that building bombers required massively enlarging the boats' diameter as Polaris missiles were almost 9 metres in length and so to accommodate them our missile subs had to have a beam of 10 metres. A massive improvement on the typical 6 metres of earlier subs and enough room for a sub to have three quite spacious floors inside it.
8.4 metre long Polaris missiles in the guts of the sub suddenly meant much deeper and wider subs and lots of extra space to stow things. your dad definitely would have noticed a difference in comfort.
You mean draft.
Wonderful times, not a single plastic wraper or bottle anywhere.
The RN only has about 50 submarines! now we have 5!
My late Dad did 25 years on Boats and went to the North pole on Narwal
Fresh frozen food? Is this an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?
That’s one aspect of serving in the Armed forces took nerves of steel,
Man, I’m so glad I served on a ship and not a sub! At least I got to see the sky!
Haha The Scottish clyde lochs at the start was my home town, thought this was a usa psa
the good ol days when one could smoke his cigar on a submarine.
@Stanly Stud calm down dear
I prefer breathing unpolluted air
These are the same as the Oberon Class submarines in RAN (Royal Australian Navy) back in 1980s.
No they're not. The porpoises were the class before the O boats. Pretty much identical to the naked eye, the O's were slightly longer and had different equipment and slightly le3ss standard crew. The main difference was that a different type of steel was used in the construction of the pressure hull allowing them to dive de3eper. They also came out a little heavier than the Porpoise class.
@@markturner4219 The super "O"s were even better.
Quite the mixture of uniforms
@1:31 -- Holy hell that beard is pimpin'!
That dude is going to sweep up all the girlies! 😅
Below the belt a number 9?
My friend Timothy Melhuish RN died in Sept 23 he was a nav officer on diesel elec subs. He was later commercial Director of Vosper Thorneycroft. Did anyone out there serve with him????
Interesting that non of the officers or ratings are wearing Dolphins or its predecessor the red "sausage on a stick" The SM Dolphins I wore did not come in until 1972 I think - the same year I did my first week at sea on HMS Alliance (the museum boat in Gosport). The boats also sport white Pennant numbers. This was eventually phased out as, I believe, they were visible from the air in clear waters.
I would love to do this...I wish I didn't have so many health issues...
Amazing how standards have changed over the years - the boat and crew look quite grubby - and people smoking in the submarine! Wow. Great film tho
I’ve heard on diesel boats everything and everybody eventually gets covered in diesel grime. The movies from the U boat era show filthy crew and filthy conditions. Must have been part of the tradition. When nuclear boats came into service they obviously cleaned up their act.
When it comes to bravery, submariners make cave divers look like stay-at-home Mamma's boys...
They didn't pay enough to get me into one of those things when I was in the Navy & I admire those who do because the lack of space (& windows!) can't be over-emphasized enough.
Love the hairdo's!
insane footage
film cinematography thats why its hd.not videotape.
Don’t forget a submariners best friend when it comes to keeping moral high:
Butseks
all 'board the s.s. buttseks
@@zacharysmith4787 The A.S.S. Butseks
@@zacharysmith4787 And OP's a woman to boot. What a brave lass.
my late father ray "smudge" smith was on the "GRAMPUS",i had my 6th birthday on her at HMS DOLPHIN" Gosport in 1970🥰❤️🙏🙏
1:39 Such glorious facial hair.
Would the crew be issued grog?
That beard is my spirit animal.
Chest protector you mean
I’m thinking of joining now
Can only muster about 50 submarines in 1960? I wonder how many we have 60 years later?
At present only 5 operational , rest under repair.
@@skylongskylong1982 sounds bad but i googled it turns out...
Uk has 11,
Us has 71
Russia has 33
I could only find comparisons for nuclear subs but proportionally we have more than in 1960
Shush the reds you know
Loose lips sink ships
@Fire Starter Bollocks. There's a reason it is called the independent deterrent...
We couldn't fire the first batch of Polaris missiles without alerting the US first and seeking their co-operation but the later Polaris missiles and both Trident programs have been 100% under our own control. A widely debunked myth that still seems to do the rounds.
Not much has chanced since I served in the early 2000’s. Only recently a hike in technology has reached the sub’s
.....and then Canada bought the same “state of the art” boat 50 years later....slightly used...
Except they were Oberon's - one of the best diesel electric boats, Not Porpoises.
Oh and they were bought new from the manufacturer.
Two from two isn't bad.
NO we had these exact boats back then
A couple of subs been decommissioned, a few years ago - and sold to "private collectors".
Why would Canada worry about anything with us to the south?
Looks a lot like HMAS Otway..
I've had coffee there a few times..
Is that an Oberon class?
Superb video
You know compared to these subs the modern nuclear submarine is a luxury cruise ship.
7:04 good old days when you can smoke in a submarine.
Yeah that all changed on my second trip and people were not happy to only be able to smoke on the surface in the bridge hahaha.
As a non-smoker those were the bad old days. Especially when people were smoking in an enclosed space. I was able to wipe the residue from the cigarette smoke off of the computer frames in Missile Control Center. The smell of the submarine was bad enough. Adding in the stink of burning tobacco just made it that much worse.
@@ssmt2 Hydraulic Oil, Men#s BO and Cigarettes.... Hazard pay was needed lol
After a month at sea, the periscope operator looked like Marty Feldman
Interesting they mentioned the original dreadnought, now that the new dreadnought Is underway
1.17 smoking boost performance...
are these the same people as Bowflex?
smoking on a sub while loading torpedoes - gotta love the brits
Loading torpedoes is only dangerous because they are heavy and the danger is getting crushed.
Dude is going to be gone for months, and yet he can't be bothered to give his Wife a hug goodbye?! That's cold.
Can you imagine in another 40 years they say the same about us
I wouldn’t get your hopes up 😉🏴☠️
1:32 that's the most captainy captain I have ever seen.