General Submarine News

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From the Submariners Association:-
Thank you for your email. As veterans or military personnel, we can confirm that Submariners are able to access free train travel to attend Remembrance events. Thank you for flagging that your official Remembrance service takes place on Sunday 6th November. I can confirm that submariners will be able to access free travel to attend this event and am working with train companies to ensure this message is passed to frontline staff.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if further clarification would be helpful.
Kind regards,
Catrin
Catrin Wilson | Assistant Private Secretary, Secretary of State for Transport, , Department for Transport
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Post to: Great Minster Hse, 33 Horseferry Rd, London, SW1P 4DR

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QinetiQ Group

Submarines play a hazardous game of hide and seek against enemies equipped with sophisticated sensors. As such, they must be designed to be as stealthy as possible and regularly tested. Read our latest paper which explores the future of underwater Test & Evaluation:

At - https://www.qinetiq.com/en/what-we-do/t ... waterTandE

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First Sea Lord

"My response to recent allegations in the press on inappropriate behaviour in the Submarine Service:"

See attached and - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rines.html

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Ministry of Defence

This weekend is Submariners Memorial Weekend. With events taking place across London, we thank all submariners who serve and have served and remember those who are no longer with us, now on EternalPatrol.

See - https://twitter.com/hashtag/EternalPatr ... htag_click - Which is an ongoing thread.

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This weekend Royal Navy sailors and submariners joined veterans to mark Submariners Memorial Weekend.

Remembering all those who are on Eternal Patrol, personnel attended events at Westminster Abbey and laid wreaths in remembrance of those who came before them.

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Serving Royal Navy Submariners & veterans in London this weekend for annual Submariners Remembrance Weekend. We will Remember them.

See - <https://twitter.com/RNinScotland/status ... 8178962433> - for photos.

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RIP. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce who died yesterday. Submariner joined RN in 1961. Commanded HMS Oberon, Opossum & Superb during hair-raising Cold War patrols. Then HMS Brilliant before eventually becoming 1SL and was CDS during the second Gulf War.

From - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 0498003971

See - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/admi ... -5vqgckxfb

And - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... GdL44WZCtI

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HMS REGENT

Italian divers believed to have finally located the the wreck of submarine HMS Regent - sunk by mine in April 1943 off Italy's Adriatic coast with loss of all 62 hands.


See - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... years.html

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Sailors of Royal Navy submarine singled out for their effort to promote diversity

See - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... -diversity

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The number of sightings of American nuclear submarines visiting Scotland this year has doubled over the same period last year.
We reported previously that while visits themselves are common, the frequency of visits is not common. Neither is it common for visits to be publicised by the U.S. Navy or Royal Navy unlike the visit of the USS Rhode Island, a Trident-armed nuclear submarine, that arrived (and departed) earlier this year.

In figures reported here, it is claimed that double the usual number of NATO submarines have been spotted heading to and from the key Faslane naval base.

“Sightings so far this year stand at 85 compared with 43 for the whole of 2021, and include a string of America’s most advanced Virginia-class fast-attack submarines.”

The U.S. Navy said previously that port visits to Faslane reflect the United States’ “commitment to our allies and partners in the region and complements the many exercises, training, operations, and other military cooperation activities conducted by Strategic Forces to ensure they are available and ready to safely and effectively operate around the globe at any time”.

See - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/huge-in ... GrhOUQ7G7M