Submariners - The Navy Silent Service - Part 1

 

The Silent Service

The Royal Navy Submarine Service was formed in 1901, the first Submarine was the Holland 1, built by Vickers in Barrow in Furness.

13 years later, at the outbreak of World War One (WW1) the Submarine fleet consisted of some 62 Submarines (or boats).

WW1 Submarines

The Subamne while considered ungentlemanly warfare by some, proved itself with submarines winning 5 VCs in WW1. 

By WW2 Submarines had developed and got bigger, capable of travelling further distances and longer at sea. 

But it was after the war during the Cold War that Submarines came into their own with nuclear power. The first nuclear powers Submarine was launched in 1960. named HMS Dreadnaught. Nuclear power meant submarines could stay below the service for greater periods. Something that makes the Submaire service motto even more accurate. "We Come Unseen."

References

https://www.forces.net/services/navy/navy-submariners-pictured-wearing-black-caps-one-first-times

https://www.forces.net/news/royal-navy-submariner-trainees-get-new-badge

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