Life as a Rating in the Modern Royal Navy
by
Stephen Bridgman MBE
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
In May 2000 the British nuclear hunter-killer submarine HMS Tireless limped into Gibraltar using emergency propulsion and with her nuclear reactor shut down. Days earlier, while traversing the Straits of Sicily the crew had discovered a crack in one of the nuclear reactor pipes, requiring the immediate...