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  • "
    The Salv wrote:
    Not again.
    .
    Where are the lefty liberal militants when you need them!
    .
    Why put the citizens of Southampton at risk by allowing this death machine into our docks.
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    The captain managed to ground one in Scotland, a shooting massacre last time round. The Navy are well known on their incompetence and if there is a meltdown that would be the end of any cruise ships and container ships coming into the city. Get our priorities right. We are not set up for a military port we are an easy target.
    Once again the ignorant morons comment on something they know nothing about. Has this idiot ever even set foot on one of these magnificent vessels? thought not.
    Our subs are always having melt downs, so are the yanks and everyone else......oh no, hang on a minute, no they aren't.
    I spent 5 yrs on one of these subs and I would trust my life with any member of our fantastic armed forces.
    Stop bloody moaning and get a life."
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Royal Navy nuclear submarine begins five-day visit to Southampton

2:10pm Thursday 1st March 2012 in Shipping Daily Echo: Photograph of the Author By Luke Tugby , Senior reporter

Daily Echo: HMS Tireless on a previous visit to Southampton HMS Tireless on a previous visit to Southampton

ONE of the Royal Navy’s most celebrated submarines will today make its next stop in Southampton.

Plymouth-based HMS Tireless, which has served in the Arctic and Gibraltar, will be berthed in Eastern Docks during a five-day visit to the city.

The nuclear-powered submarine, launched in March 1984, will welcome visitors from Sea and Air Cadet and Sea Scout units from across Hampshire, as well as sixth form college pupils.

Civic dignitaries and city council chiefs are also set to board the vessel and meet the crew, during its five-day visit.

Among the crew is the vessel’s Commanding Officer, Commander Hywel Griffiths, who is a former pupil at Peter Symonds College, in Winchester.

He said: “Having completed my secondary education and worked in the local area prior to joining the Royal Navy, it is with immense personal pride that I bring HMS Tireless to Southampton under my command.

“It is a welcome opportunity for my ship’s company to meet people and visit the city of Southampton and for local people to visit us so that we may demonstrate how we are engaged day to day in protecting our nation’s interests.”

Last May, HMS Tireless returned from a ten-month deployment to the Middle East, where she conducted several missions to help combat the threat of terrorism.

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