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The Newspaper of The Royal Navy and The Royal Naval Association
14a] YEAR, OCTOBER,
Published first Thursday
1967
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Resolution. the Royal Navy's first Polaris submarine. l-_l.M.S. which has £52 cost
million, commissioned at Barrow October 2—right on time.
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She is the first of four similar submarines. the Vickcrs. builders of Resolution. are also building H.M.S. Rcpulse. while Cammel Laird are building H.M.S. Renown and H.i\l.S.
Revenge.
The other three submarines due to commission at are approximately six-monthly intervals. and the Polaris Fleet is due to be operationally dcployed by i970. Resolution is armed with I6 A-3 Polaris missiles. with British warheads. and these are capable of being delivered with extreme accuracy at a range of 2.500 miles.
NUCLEAR SHIELD
Capable of
extended operations all over the world. and free from the need to surface. the Polaris submarine presents almost insiipcrable problems of detection to an enemy. providing a nuclear shield for Britain and N.»\‘I'O. Resolution has two crews assigned to her—port and star-
board—and these are commandcd by two commanding officers. Cdr. M. C. Henry and Cdr. K. Frcwer. The crews will take turn and turn about on the schedule of two-monthlypatrols.
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R.M. WILL B LATTO LEAVE ADEN Once they called it :\dcn's Ma'al|a's Mile. Golden
duzil-carriageway _bc-
long
six-storied buildings that were the homes of thousands of British service men and their families. into its prosperous shops
tween
the thousands of pounds they spent each week in the colony. Today. however. the flats
went most of
ill.
ppzird
and their wives improve. 3 lini-skirted is the ullici. dealing uitli :ipplieatiuiLs to join the R..\'. and R.M. Dependants‘ 1-'und. (See also page 7) .
hastily
cvaciiated are empty. the stores locked and sliuttercd,
Wreck of M1 not to be raised
The wreck of the First World War submarine Ml, which had a 12 in. gun, and which was lost with all hands in mysterious circumstances on November I2, 1925. has been discovered by the salVage expert, Capt. Silas Oates, and his team of divers.
Ml. designed to bombard German shipping and shore bases. was the brainchild of Admiral of the Fleet l.ord l-islicr. but she was not com» pleicd until April. l9l8. and was iioi used during the war.
Capt. Oates planned to raise the boat. but the wreck is Ministry ot’ Defence property. and an Admiralty spokesman said:
"We consider Ml to be a tomb. From the oint of view of the relatives 0 the men who died. the wreck is best left alone." The Navy will take no steps to raise the wreck and civilian divers will risk serious action if
they investigate it.
Mr. Frank Charles. the diver
who discovered the submarine. said she was lying in sand and shale and coated with barnaclcs. The letter “M" was clearly visible. The submarine was 300 it. long and was said to have a speed of IS knots on the surface and nine knots submerged. Ml had two sistcrsliips. M2 had her gun replaced by a sea-
planc. and
crew
1932. M3
lost with all the oft Portland on June 26. was
converted into a minswecper. and was scrapped in 1932. was
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and business is at a Slatitlstill. Tlirougli ii traflic speeds faster than ever between Kliormsiksar
and Steamer Point. for drivers now know it as Murder Mile because of the terrorism that has occurred there. Keeping the peace in Ma'alla in the final days before Southern Arabia becomes independent is 45 Cominando. Royal Marines. \\lIlCll has been in Aden longer than any other British troops still serving in the Red Sea crisis point. Al-‘TF.R I28 Yl-'.i\RS
It is planned that they should be the last military unit to leave when Britain ends its 128 years of rule. The Royal Marines took over internal security duties in a densely populated thrcc-milelong zone. after responsibility for Little Aden. where they had their base in BP Camp. had been handed over to the South
i;\2rabian Amiy
on
September
When 45 Commando returns to Britain. it will have been overseas continuously since 1946. In Aden. where the iinii has both undertaken internal security duties and up-country operations. it has been awarded
three .\l.B.TF.s.. two .\l.Cs.. four .\l..\ls.. six Mentioned in I)csp:ilc‘ltt:\‘. ilirce Queen's Conimendatioiis. :ind I5 C.-in-Cs. Coniineiidatioiis for its work.
Dramatic picture of ll.M.S. Resolution at speed on the surface. showing the unusual wave fomiiilion built up her “hale-like how. She will join the Fleet next _ve:ir alter test at at
Cape Kenneth.
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