The Submarine Under the Park, Part 2 – Digging Deeper

Having finally put pen to paper and fulfilled a long-held ambition of writing for the Naval Review, I was absolutely thrilled to see my article concerning the ‘Submarine Under the Park’ make it to print in NR 111/1. I duly proceeded to pat myself on the back and heartily congratulate myself on a leave period well-spent, assuring my wife that I was, at long last, done banging on about “that bloody submarine.” Then an email dropped into my inbox. It was from Dr Simon Roffey, of the University of Winchester, Hampshire. A former submariner himself (he served on HMS Onslaught in the 1980s), he had…