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HMS Dolphin closed as a submarine base on 30 September 1998, [7] although the last RN submarine permanently based at Gosport was HMS Opossum which had left five years earlier in 1993. [8] The Royal Navy Submarine School (RNSMS) remained at Dolphin until 23 December 1999 when it closed prior to relocation to HMS Raleigh at Torpoint in Cornwall.
HMS Dolphin (1924) was originally the depot ship Pandora, purchased in 1914. She was renamed Dolphin in 1924 and was sunk by a mine in 1939. HMS Dolphin (shore establishment), the spiritual home of the Royal Navy's submarine service at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, and was a submarine base until 1994 and training school to 1999.
View of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered Vanguard-class submarines.
Latterly HMS Collingwood provided the gun crews; [51] previously they had been manned by staff from HMS Dolphin. [ 35 ] The use of Fort Blockhouse for gun salutes was of long standing; at the Portsmouth Naval Review of 1773 King George III was greeted by 21-gun salutes from Fort Blockhouse, the saluting platform and Southsea Castle . [ 52 ]
HMS Dolphin, Gosport, Hampshire HMS Dryad , former location of the Maritime Warfare School, Southwick, Hampshire HMS Duke , Basic Training Establishment, Malvern, 1944–1945.
Davis breathing apparatus tested at the submarine escape test tank at HMS Dolphin, Gosport, 14 December 1942. The DSEA rig chiefly addressed the problem of anoxia threatening a person ascending through water, by providing oxygen; and the associated risk of lung over-pressure injury as underwater pressure reduces with reducing depth, which it addressed by managing oxygen pressures.
A birds-eye view of the Submarine Escape Training Tank at the former HMS Dolphin in Gosport. All submariners are trained at the facility to learn how to escape from a submerged submarine. Author: POA Phot Gary Davies: Date and time of data generation: 11 March 2004: City shown: Gosport: JPEG file comment: AppleMark: Orientation: Normal ...
Promoted to captain in 1959, he commanded the submarine depot ship HMS Forth 1961–62. He was chief staff officer to the Flag Officer Submarines based at HMS Dolphin, Gosport 1962-64 (under, successively, Rear Admirals Hugh Mackenzie and Horace Law), and in 1965-68 Commodore Superintendent, HM Naval Base Malta. [1]