Thousands of veterans cards to be rolled
Thousands more veterans will receive HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards by the end of the year thanks to a £3 million injection to expand the roll-out to veterans who left service before 2018. Veterans’ Minister Johnny Mercer has visited a MOD printing facility at HMS Sultan in Gosport Government has invested £3m to scale up […]
THE SILENT SERVICE CELEBRATES SUCCESS WITH A NIGHT AT THE OSCARS
THE red carpet was rolled out in true Hollywood style at the Glasgow Hilton Hotel last weekend for the annual Submarine Service Awards, known colloquially as ‘The Submarine Oscars.’ Serving and retired Submariners, their families, friends, and affiliates all dressed up in their best bib and tucker for an evening of glitz and glamour to […]
BAE people project
Designed and built by our Submarines apprentices, the ‘People. Product. Pride: 150 years of Barrow Shipyard’ heritage sculpture is now on permanent display at Vickerstown Park in Barrow. The statue depicts Barrow’s shipbuilding heritage through three key elements; the men and women who have worked in the shipyard, the community which the business has served […]
RN Submarine Service to recieve worlds most advanced attack submarines.
The Royal Navy is set to receive £4billion from the Government to build the “world’s most advanced” attack submarines. Three UK companies have won a £3.95billion contract to build a new generation of submarines for the Navy, as part of the country’s AUKUS programme with Australia and the United States. BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Babcock […]
Thank you at RM band Tour
The Submarine Family thanked some our wonderful supporters last week by hosting them at the RM band tour in Leicester and Liverpool. Kathryn Nye attended the Leicester show after donating money after her father, a retired submariner sadly passed away. WO2 Alyn Williams and Brian Wood from the Merseyside branch of the Submariners Association for […]
Wreath Laying Ceremony at Kylesku
A service to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack on the German battleship, the Tirpitz, was held at the XII Submarine Flotilla memorial at Kylesku last weekend. The wreath-laying ceremony, which took place on Saturday, September 23, was attended by Lord-Lieutenant Major General Patrick Marriott, along with Royal Navy representatives from Faslane and members […]
AUKUS 2 years on
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the establishment of the AUKUS defence and security partnership between 🇦🇺, 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸. Substantial progress has been made on the SSN-AUKUS and Advanced Capabilities programmes since the initial announcement in 2021. The UK is getting on and delivering AUKUS, which will strengthen Indo-Pacific and global security while creating […]
Submarine Awards Evening
The Submarine Service held their annual awards ceremony to celebrate to achievements of those in our community both operational and in support of our family.The evening was held in Glasgow Hilton and was hosted by Cdre Paul Dunn.Sponsored by the submarine family, over 350 serving, veteran submariners and family members were in attendance to witness […]
SMQ support local community centre
We had a little of help from our friends at HMNB Clyde, who very kindly lent us some of their SMQ trainees for the day.The hard working bunch got to work giving the outside of the Centre a facelift and undertook some much needed garden maintenance. The vast majority of work in our Garden is […]
FOST (SM) Supersession
THE ORGANISATION responsible for training Royal Navy Submariners in Scotland – Fleet Operational Standards and Training (Submarines) (FOST (SM)) – has a new Commanding Officer.The current Captain FOST Submarines, Captain Neil Lamont, formally handed over to Captain Justin Codd on Tuesday, 29 August, during the supersession at HM Naval Base Clyde.Captain Lamont, who has been […]
