They contained details of covert missions for UK special forces in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. Two years ago The Sun told how classified defence documents were found in a soggy heap at a bus stop in Kent. And it can circumnavigate the Globe without resurfacing.Īir and water are made onboard so the only limit to deployment is how much food it carries for crew.Ī Navy spokesperson told ‘The Sun’ the papers were “generic training documents… However, we take all security matters extremely seriously and will investigate the circumstances of their discovery.” HMS Anson’s nuclear reactors mean it can go 25 years without refuelling. The Navy describes the sub as the “cutting edge of the UK’s military capabilities” and “the most advanced hunter-killer in the world.” It is armed with Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk land attack missiles. It launched in February and is now based at His Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde, Scotland, for sea trials. The boozer is a five-minute walk from the BAE Systems’ shipyard where workers build Astute class hunter-killer subs. It is good to see their commitment to training, but the pub is probably the wrong place.” When they do their basic submarine qualification they have to walk round the boat to demonstrate they know all the systems. “They are part of a book that cover all the systems on a sub. Official sensitive documents are one level below Secret.įormer sub captain, Commander Ryan Ramsay said: “It looks like someone has taken the pages off the boat to study.
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It was lucky it wasn’t some deep cover Russian spy.”Ī naval source said the documents were part of a reference manual that is readily available on board.Īnybody who had worked on the submarine would have used the manual. I went into the toilet and the plans were lying on the floor of the cubicle with the lanyard.
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The pub was full of people from the docks - military and civilian. The source said: “It was quite a lively night. Government guidance says that information marked “Sensitive” must only be shared on “genuine need to know” and could have damaging consequences if lost, stolen or published. It was found in the boozer with a Royal Navy lanyard from the new £1.3bn vessel.Ī source said the pub was packed when the papers, marked Official Sensitive, were found on Saturday night. Key detail on HMS Anson’s hydraulics, which control torpedo hatches, steering and buoyancy, were in the dossier. The files showed the inner workings of the torpedo-loaded vessel. Classified files on £1.3billion HMS Anson had been dropped in The Furness Railway in Barrow, Cumbria, Britain press informs.Ī source said: “It was lucky a Russian spy didn’t find them.” Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world’s first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.Secret nuclear sub plans were found in a toilet cubicle at a Wetherspoons pub (photo). After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. In its early years of service, the USS Nautilus broke numerous submarine travel records and in August 1958 accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole. The uranium-powered nuclear reactor produced steam that drove propulsion turbines, allowing the Nautilus to travel underwater at speeds in excess of 20 knots. It could remain submerged for almost unlimited periods because its atomic engine needed no air and only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel. Much larger than the diesel-electric submarines that preceded it, the Nautilus stretched 319 feet and displaced 3,180 tons. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. In 1952, the Nautilus‘ keel was laid by President Harry S. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world’s first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy’s nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine.
Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S.
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