im looking for any information that people may have about royal navy ships meeting solviet ships during the cold war. did they shadow us? did we shadow them, did our sub play a game of cat and mouse? any information plus pictures would be very helpful
thanks
By: Neptune - 12th December 2005 at 19:27
Many KGB ships behind every fleet, so certainly behind the UK’s too.
By: TinWing - 12th December 2005 at 17:47
I’ve heard that during the cold war Warspite got torpedoed by an American sub who mistook her for a hostile Soviet, and fired back sinking the American sub! Warspite lost her conning tower but survived. Seems far fetched, though the story came from a former RN submariner.
The only operational American submarine that was lost during the cold war was the USS Scorpion. The Scorpion was lost in 1968, the Warspite was commisioned in 1971.
(Incidentally, the Thresher was lost during acceptance trials.)
By: XN923 - 12th December 2005 at 16:23
I’ve heard that during the cold war Warspite got torpedoed by an American sub who mistook her for a hostile Soviet, and fired back sinking the American sub! Warspite lost her conning tower but survived. Seems far fetched, though the story came from a former RN submariner.
By: sealordlawrence - 12th December 2005 at 12:48
There was a Rumour that one of the Swiftsure class boats still has the marks on her Hull where she ran into the propeller or s Soviet Sub, and I have heard a number stories of British subs tracking soviet subs, some from television programmes.
By: SteveO - 12th December 2005 at 11:52
This a nice site for RN/FAA pics and info 🙂 http://lionels.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
By: SteveO - 12th December 2005 at 11:43
HMS Ark Royal collided with the Soviet destroyer Kotlin in 1970 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_%28R09%29
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