My flatmate has a book about navy blunders from around the world and read me out an interesting one the other day.
When nuclear subs first came about the Eagle comic decided they would do an exploded diagram of one for a pull out in the centre pages (they did do pull outs of planes and boats, I've sean a few of them).
As the subs innards were top secret the artist decided he would just make it up, starting with useing the largest peice of mashinary in the midle of the sub where it would balance better.
Aparently, so the story gos, the artists depiction of the sub was so accurate that after the article was published he was arrested by military inteligence operatives (or some M.I. something organisation) and told to reveeal his sourse.
It seams a little far feched but can anyone conferm it, dose any one have that issue of the eagle? (I think it had the issue number or publication date noted in the book so if it dose I'll post it)
I can remember going on a tour of a nucleair sub on a plymoth navy day in the 80's with my uncle who was a highly ranked navy bod. You were only alowed in the crews quarters though and no photos, the other parts were locked off and gauarded by sailors/submarinars.
most of the interior was painted black or gray-blue and one sailor/submarinar was selling pink plymoth navy day rock from some sort of sevice hatch.
I was only around 7 at the time (so posibly 87/88) so It was just like going on any old sub or boat realy.
When we went to another navy day in 1990 or 91 my dad enquired about tour of the nuclear subs again as my brother and I had been too young to realy appreceate it at the time, but the officer he talked to and told of the earlier tour didn't belive that such an event had ever happened.
was this tour something 'they' are trying to cover up or is it some kind of strange created memory my dad, my brother and me share ? or was it just a regular sub full of submarinars laughing about the hilarious trick they played on gullible civilians ?
When nuclear subs first came about the Eagle comic decided they would do an exploded diagram of one for a pull out in the centre pages (they did do pull outs of planes and boats, I've sean a few of them).
As the subs innards were top secret the artist decided he would just make it up, starting with useing the largest peice of mashinary in the midle of the sub where it would balance better.
Aparently, so the story gos, the artists depiction of the sub was so accurate that after the article was published he was arrested by military inteligence operatives (or some M.I. something organisation) and told to reveeal his sourse.
It seams a little far feched but can anyone conferm it, dose any one have that issue of the eagle? (I think it had the issue number or publication date noted in the book so if it dose I'll post it)
I can remember going on a tour of a nucleair sub on a plymoth navy day in the 80's with my uncle who was a highly ranked navy bod. You were only alowed in the crews quarters though and no photos, the other parts were locked off and gauarded by sailors/submarinars.
most of the interior was painted black or gray-blue and one sailor/submarinar was selling pink plymoth navy day rock from some sort of sevice hatch.
I was only around 7 at the time (so posibly 87/88) so It was just like going on any old sub or boat realy.
When we went to another navy day in 1990 or 91 my dad enquired about tour of the nuclear subs again as my brother and I had been too young to realy appreceate it at the time, but the officer he talked to and told of the earlier tour didn't belive that such an event had ever happened.
was this tour something 'they' are trying to cover up or is it some kind of strange created memory my dad, my brother and me share ? or was it just a regular sub full of submarinars laughing about the hilarious trick they played on gullible civilians ?