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Monday, November 15, 2010

Sun sets on the S-boats

Swiftsure classThe curtain falls on Britain’s second generation of hunter-killer submarines on December 10 when HMS Sceptre – the oldest active nuclear boat in the world – bows out.

The boat, the last of six Swiftsure-class Fleet submarines which have served the nation since 1973, decommissions in Devonport after 32 years under the White Ensign.

Veterans of the S-class are converging on the Hamoaze for the farewell, plus as many of Sceptre’s 16 COs who can make the ceremony, the Band of the Scots Guards, the submarine’s affiliated unit, and VIPs from the town which has supported the boat throughout her long life: Wigan.

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