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H.M.S. CHURCHILL, negative
Starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered submarine H.M.S. CHURCHILL in the Queen Alexandra lock, Cardiff, circa 1973.
Built at Barrow in 1968, she was one of the Valiant class of Fleet submarines. She has recently been withdrawn from service with the Royal Navy.
Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.
Submarine - pennant no. S46. Laid down June 1967 by Vickers Engineering & Shipbuilding Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, and completed and commissioned in 1970. She was the first of three Churchill-class nuclear powered submarines, and was euipped with a Rolls –Royce reactor, and fitted with pump-jet propulsion. She was de-commissioned in February 1991 and is currently (2013) laid up at Rosyth awaiting disposal. (wikipedia)( www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BoatDB2/index.php?BoatID=685)