Cold War Submarine Warrior

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Eric Thompson has had his finger literally on the nuclear button. He joined the Royal Navy submarine service in the early days of the Cold War. He served on WW2 era ships and submarines before ending his career as a senior officer on Britain's state of the art nuclear submarines. Each one is armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear tips. He took Dan to the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport to show him around one of the finest preserved submarines in the world, HMS Alliance. He told Dan how they kept the beer cold and why his main concern at sea was the toilet.

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0:58.0	I went round HMS Alliance with him.
1:00.0	It was laid down right at the end of the second world war completed in 1947.
1:04.0	And it served in the Royal Navy right the way through the 1970s.
1:08.0	It's now a museum ship in Gospels, just next to Port Smith.
1:12.0	So I was so honored that Eric took me around this submarine.
1:16.0	He talks me all about his experience submarines and what submarines got up to in the cold war.
1:20.0	Enjoy.
1:21.0	As soon as I arrived in the Royal Navy's submarine museum in Gospels just across the water from Port Smith,
1:29.0	we clambered aboard HMS Alliance and straight away, Eric was in his own the tour began.
1:35.0	Eric was in his own the tour began.
1:37.0	This is an E class submarine and I used to serve in one of these.
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