Quote Originally Posted by Stokport
Geoff, thanks a lot. This is awesome. The DN is my choice. A massive u-boat in a great storm. Which one is btw, one from the royal navy?

Cheers

Henrik
The submarine pictured is the seventh "HMS Dreadnought." S101 was the United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine, built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness.

The HMS Dreadnought (S101) was laid down on 12 June 1959, and launched by Her Majesty the Queen on Trafalgar Day, 21 October 1960. The reactor was embarked in 1962 and Dreadnought made her first dive, in Ramsden Dock, on 10 January 1963. At the time of her commissioning on 17 April 1963, she was one of the most formidable attack submarines in the world.

Sadly, due to machinery damage and the limited refit facilities then available for SSNs, HMS Dreadnought was withdrawn from service in 1980. HMS Dreadnought is now at Rosyth Naval Dockyard, laid up indefinitely while her radioactive contamination decays. Her nuclear fuel has been removed and she has been stripped of useful equipment.

As an aside the other six HMS Dreadnoughts were:

HMS Dreadnought (1573), a 41-gun ship launched in 1573, rebuilt in 1592 and 1614, then broken up in 1648.
HMS Dreadnought (1691), a 60-gun 4th rate launched in 1691, rebuilt in 1706 and broken up 1748.
HMS Dreadnought (1742), a 60-gun 4th rate launched in 1742 and sold 1784.
HMS Dreadnought (1801), a 98-gun 2nd rate launched in 1801, converted to a hospital ship in 1827, and broken up 1857.
HMS Dreadnought (1875), a battleship launched in 1875 and hulked in 1903, then sold in 1908.
HMS Dreadnought (1906), a revolutionary battleship, launched in 1906 and sold for breakup in 1921.