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date submarine location Incident

1. FIRES

63 VALIANT Barrow Fire in reactor compartment

while under construction [1]

65 DREADNOUGHT Rosyth Fire in control room [2]

Sep 68 VALIANT Chatham Two small fires [3]

Aug 70 RESOLUTION Rosyth Fire in control room [4]

3 Jul 72 REPULSE Rosyth Fire onboard [5]

Jan 75 REPULSE Faslane Fire from equipment overheating [6]

Jul 75 COURAGEOUS Faslane Fire onboard [7]

76/77 REPULSE Fire causing 200,000 damage [8]

2 May 76 WARSPITE Liverpool Serious fire, 2 years to repair [9]

Mar 80 REVENGE Faslane Electrical fire, jetty cable [10]

18 Sep 83 CONQUEROR Devonp/t Fire [11]

Sep 85 REPULSE Rosyth Fire on jetty heating system [12]

86 SPLENDID Devonport Fire in generator [13]

26 Aug 87 CONQUEROR Devonport Fire during DED, engine room

damage, burns casualties [14]

May 88 CONQUEROR Gibr/r Fire on board [15]

5 Aug 88 VALIANT Faslane Fire on board [16]

Feb 91 SWIFTSURE Devonport Fire in engine room [17]

20 Oct 91 SCEPTRE Faslane Fire on board; reactor checked

after incident [18]

30 Apr 92 TURBULENT Devonport Explosion & Fire in switchroom

24 casualties from smoke [19].

2. COLLISIONS

7 Oct 69 RENOWN Mull of Collision with Irish MV Moyle,

Kintyre while surfacing at night [20]

69 REVENGE Clyde Collided with cattle boat while

surfacing [21]

Jan 73 REPULSE Faslane Hydroplanes of REPULSE damaged

REVENGE in collision [22]

early 80s SCEPTRE Barents Collision with Soviet submarine

Sea crew told to say hit iceberg [23]

10 Jun 85 RESOLUTION Florida Collision with US yacht at

missile range. [24]

2 Jul 88 COURAGEOUS N Channel Sinks yacht Dalriada [25].

3. FISHING BOAT INCIDENTS 1980 - 1990 [26]

4 Nov 80 Portland Damage to trawl of FV UNION

17 Nov 81 Clyde Fishing nets fouled, FV SAPPHIRE

18 Apr 82 Irish Sea FV SHERALGA sunk, crew recovered

1 Dec 82 Plymouth Nets cut, near collision, FV ALGERIE

10 Mar 83 Irish Sea Tangled in fishing net, FV TARGUEN

11 Aug 84 Clyde Incident, FV HUNTRESS

6 Dec 87 N Channel Gear lost, FV PREVAIL

3 Dec 88 Malin Hd Nets parted, FV MOUNT DEEN

26 Mar 89 Clyde FV HUNTRESS towed backwards

12 Sep 89 Irish Sea Sub. aerial caught by FV CONTESTER

13 Nov 89 Lewis FV SCOTIA towed backwards

22 Nov 90 TRENCHANT Clyde FV ANTARES sunk, loss of all 4 crew

date submarine location Incident

4. GROUNDINGS

5 Nov 67 REPULSE Barrow Ran aground after launch [27]

17 Apr 71 RENOWN Clyde Hits sea bed in post-refit trials,

Commander court-martialled [28]

13 Oct 89 Swiftsure Loch Submarine scraped the bottom [29]

class Linnhe

5. BREAKDOWNS AT SEA

Jan 68 RESOLUTION Atlantc Defect in electrical generator on way

to Florida; returned to Faslane [30]

19 Oct 68 WARSPITE N Atl Ice damage to conning tower &

superstructure [31]

19 Sep 74 SOVEREIGN W Coast Steering defect; later under tow [32]

Scotland

78 REVENGE Steam leak, disaster averted [33]

12 Aug 80 SOVEREIGN Plym/th Towed to Devonport after break down on

Sound trials [34]

ANNEX B PROBLEMS WITH PWR 1

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1. PWR PROBLEMS AT DOCKYARDS DURING REFITS AND DEDS

70 DREADN/T Rosyth Refit extended by 10 months, due to

serious problems [1]

73 CONQUEROR Chatham 2 major defects found at end of

DED [2]

74/75 DREADN/T Chatham Refit extended due to extra work

needed on reactor welds [3]

75/76 RESOLUTION Rosyth Reactor welders brought from Chatham

& Devonport; Problems during final

reactor power testing [4]

77/78 SOVEREIGN Chatham Not a refit but special repairs for

over a year; SOVEREIGN later said

to have major reactor problems [5]

79/83 SWIFTSURE Devonpt Refit lasted 4 years [6]

80 RENOWN Rosyth Major technical problem identified at

end of refit; 150 workers sent to

Faslane after refit completed. [7]

May 80 REVENGE Rosyth High radiation levels, large amount

of waste produced in decontamination

[8]

83/84 RESOLUTION Rosyth Brown stains found throughout reactor

pipework; Problems with crucial weld

on Main Seal Membrane; Main feed

nozzles replaced on both Steam

Generators; Workers at Rosyth had

high radiation doses; 3 crews working

in reactor on 3 jobs at once [9]

84 WARSPITE Rosyth Serious reactor problem needed

(DED) "innovative engineering .... new

ways to tackle old problems" [10]

date submarine location Incident

84/6 REPULSE Rosyth "Major innovative repair" in reactor

compartment; Cutting machine designed

to remove stress corrosive cracking

from Steam Generators [11]

85/86 ? Rosyth Poor workmanship & standards

affecting safety led to board of

enquiry over refit; Problem had not

been identified when it should have

and corrective action was very

difficult; possibly REPULSE [12]

86/8 VALIANT Rosyth "Showing her age"; A number of "novel

tasks" carried out on the reactor;

Special tool invented by RRA to

tackle an awkward problem with the

Steam Generator; "This situation has

never occured before." - Babcock

Thorn; This will add 6 months to

refit. [13]

Mar 90 SCEPTRE Devonport Coolant leak in Primary Circuit [14]

Dec 89 WARSPITE Devonpt Defect discovered leading to

decommissioning. [15]

2. OTHER PROBLEMS WITH PWR 1

1 Dec 80 DREADNOUGHT Complete reactor shut down after

serious machinery damage; reported as

cracks in secondary cooling system [16]

15 May 81 VALIANT Fault in main cooling system;

hairline crack found on return to

Devonport under own power; Plugged

after reactor cooled down; "small

quantity of water leaked out and

drained into lead tank into a

barge" [17]

82 CONQUEROR Atlantc Reactor shut down on route to

Falklands [18]

Sep 91 TRAFALGAR Coulport Ventilation valves for reactor in

wrong position on patrol; REVENGE

diverted from Coulport where

TRAFALGAR was berthed [19]

ANNEX C STATUS OF TEN OLDER SUBMARINES 1 MAY 1992

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name commissioned location status

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VALIANT 1967 Rosyth Probably decommissioned

WARSPITE 1968 Devonport Decommissioned 1990

RESOLUTION 1968 Faslane Used on operations

REPULSE 1968 Sea Used on operations

RENOWN 1968 Rosyth Five year refit

REVENGE 1969 Coulport Decommissioned 1992

CHURCHILL 1971 Rosyth Decommissioned 1990

CONQUEROR 1972 Devonport Decommissioned 1990

COURAGEOUS 1972 Devonport Decommissioned 1992

SWIFTSURE 1974 Rosyth Possibly decommissioned

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ANNEX D REFITS OF RESOLUTION CLASS

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a. REFIT CYCLE FOR RESOLUTION CLASS AT ROSYTH 1970 - 1992

start recommission submarine

date date

May 70 May 71 Resolution [1]

May 71 Jul 72 Repulse [2]

Nov 72 26 Jan 74 Renown [3]

Dec 73 19 Apr 75 Revenge [4]

Apr 75 Nov 76 Resolution [5]

Oct 76 7 Jul 78 Repulse [6]

Jul 78 3 May 80 Renown [7]

Apr 80 Jan 83 Revenge [8]

Aug 82 Sep 84 Resolution [9]

Sep 84 24 Oct 86 Repulse [10]

Nov 86 by May 87 Resolution DED [11]

Oct 87 ? Renown [12]

b. LENGTH OF SERVICE AT 1 MAY 92

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RESOLUTION REPULSE RENOWN REVENGE

Commissioned 2 Oct 67 28 Sep 68 15 Nov 68 Dec 69

Age (a) 24 yr 8 mn 23 yr 8 mn 23 yr 6 mn 22 yr 5 mn

length of

1st refit 1 yr 1 yr 2 mn 1 yr 2 mn 1 yr 4 mn

2nd refit 1 yr 7 mn 1 yr 9 mn 1 yr 10 mn 2 yr 6 mn

3rd refit 2 yr 1 mn 2 yr 1 mn 4 yr 7 mn

---------- --------- ---------- ----------

total time in

refits (b) 4 yr 8 mn 5 yr 7 yr 7 mn 3 yr 10 mn

in service:

(a-b) 20 yr 18 yr 8 mn 15 yr 11 mn 18 yr 7 mn

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ANNEX E DEPLOYMENT OF RESOLUTION CLASS 1990 / 1992

1. POLARIS SUBMARINES ON PATROL 1 JULY 1990 to 1 MAY 1992

submarine from to patrol work up change

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length exercise over

REPULSE ? 23 Jul 90? ? ?

REVENGE Jul 90 28 Aug 90 ? ? ?

RESOLUTION 16 Aug 90 3 Dec 90 109 days 16 days 12 days

REVENGE 2 Dec 90 18 Feb 91 79 days 3 days 12 hours

RESOLUTION 14 Feb 91 1 Jun 91 108 days 9 days 4 days

REVENGE 27 May 91 12 Jun 91 16 days nil 4 days

RESOLUTION 7 Jun 91 8 Jul 91 31 days nil 5 days

REVENGE 4 Jul 91 24 Sep 91 82 days nil 4 days

REPULSE 20 Sep 91 23 Dec 91 94 days 23 days 4 days

RESOLUTION 18 Dec 91 14 Mar 92 89 days nil 5 days

REVENGE 4 Mar 92 13 Apr 92 40 days ? ?

REPULSE 8 Apr 92 33 days 5 days

2. DEPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUAL SUBMARINES

Table 1 above is based on the following information:

from to days location comment

a. HMS RESOLUTION

19 Jul 90 over 47 Faslane

19 Jul 90 4 Aug 90 16 Sea Work Up

4 Aug 90 16 Aug 90 13 Faslane Visit to Coulport

16 Aug 90 3 Dec 90 109 Sea Operational

3 Dec 90 25 Jan 91 53 Faslane

25 Jan 91 3 Feb 91 9 Sea Work Up

3 Feb 91 14 Feb 91 11 Faslane Visit to Coulport

14 Feb 91 1 Jun 91 108 Sea Operational

1 Jun 91 7 Jun 91 6 Faslane Crew change

7 Jun 91 8 Jul 91 31 Sea Operational

8 Jul 91 29 Nov 91 144 Faslane RRA Sep

29 Nov 91 2 Dec 91 3 Coulport

2 Dec 91 16 Dec 91 14 Faslane

16 Dec 91 18 Dec 91 2 Loch Long

18 Dec 91 14 Mar 92 89 Sea Operational

14 Mar 92 Faslane

b. HMS REPULSE

23 Jul 90 over 23 Sea Operational

23 Jul 90 20 Aug 91 394 Faslane Reactor work

20 Aug 91 12 Sep 91 23 Sea Work up & L Goil

12 Sep 91 20 Sep 91 8 Coulport

20 Sep 91 23 Dec 91 94 Sea Operational

23 Dec 91 30 Dec 91 7 Coulport

30 Dec 91 5 Mar 92 65 Faslane RRA (Jan/Feb)

5 Mar 92 8 Apr 92 33 Sea/Coul Trials

8 Apr 92 Sea Operational

c. HMS REVENGE

1 Jul 90 28 Aug 90 59 Sea Work up & operational

28 Aug 90 15 Nov 90 79 Faslane

15 Nov 90 18 Nov 90 3 Sea Work up

18 Nov 90 2 Dec 90 14 Fas/Coul

2 Dec 90 18 Feb 91 78 Sea Operational

18 Feb 91 27 May 91 98 Faslane

27 May 91 12 Jun 91 16 Sea Operational

12 Jun 91 4 Jul 91 22 Faslane

4 Jul 91 24 Sep 91 82 Sea Operational

24 Sep 91 13 Feb 92 141 Faslane

13 Feb 92 21 Feb 92 8 Sea Trials

22 Feb 92 3 Mar 92 10 Fas/Coul

4 Mar 92 13 Apr 92 40 Sea Operational

13 Apr 92 Fas/Coul

PLANNED SCHEDULE REVISED SCHEDULE

RESOL REPUL RENOW REVEN RESOL REPUL RENOW REVEN

1985 (one) refit five three 1985 (one) refit five three

1986 two refit six four 1986 two refit six four

1987 three (one) seven five 1987 three (one) seven five

1988 four two refit six 1988 four two refit six

1989 five three refit seven 1989 five three refit seven

1990 six four (one) refit 1990 six four refit eight

1991 seven five two refit 1991 seven five refit nine

1992 six three (one) 1992 eight six refit ten

1993 seven four two 1993 nine seven (one)

1994 five three 1994 eight two

1995 (VAN) six four 1995 (VAN) nine three

1996 (VAN) (VIC) five 1996 (VAN) (VIC) four

1997 (VAN) (VIC) (VIG) 1997 (VAN) (VIC) (VIG)

ANNEX G ANONYMOUS INFORMATION GIVEN TO SCOTTISH CND

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"There are cracks around the watery legs paint work in PC in SG

-------------!---------!---------!--------!--------!-----------

in both the SSN boats and Polaris boats and they don't know how

to fix it ... we are talking about Chernovyl ... its too dangerous to talk around here"

(January 1990)

"The fractures have been obvious for years and the reason for

the withdrawal of the submarines is that the MoD is afraid that

the Emergency Cooling System does not work at all. There was

an indicident at Faslane about 2 years ago when there was a near melt down .... the Emergency Cooling System does not work."

(February 1990)

"As per my prior information re nuclear submarines which led to their withdrawal, further advise that reactor fractures while serious are secondary, the high hazard is final coolant failures; thus the prior incident could have resulted in catastrophe, certainly in Clyde Basin"

(October 1991)

page 25 NOTES AND REFERENCES

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HA Helensburgh Advertiser.

DP Dunfermline Press.

Spotlight Newspaper of HM Dockyard Rosyth.

VSEL Link Newspaper of VSEL.

NP3 Neptune Papers No 3, Naval Nuclear Accidents 1945 - 1988,

Greenpeace/Institute for Policy Studies, 1989

Reactor System Defects in Royal Navy Nuclear Powered Submarines,

J Large, Greenpeace, 1990.

Naval Nuclear Bases: the costs to the Clyde, Greenpeace, 1988.

Bring Polaris Home, Greenpeace, 1991.

"Polaris: In Deep Water", This Week, 19 Sep 91, Thames TV

House of Commons Papers:

HC 36 80/81 Strategic Nuclear Forces

HC 362 80/81 The Royal Dockyards

HC 359 87/88 Transfer of the Royal Dockyards to Commercial Management,

HC 316 88/89 Decommissioning of Nuclear Submarines

HC 69 90/91 Decommissioning of Fleet Nuclear Submarines

HC 369 90/91 Royal Navy Submarines

HC 479 90/91 Radiological protection of service & civilian personnel

HC 337 91/92 Progress of the Trident Programme

SECTION 1

1 2 US and 5 Soviet nuclear powered submarines have been

lost at sea, NP3, p7; RN does not have the unimpeachable

nuclear safety record claimed, HC 69 90/91 p10.

2 Guardian 3 May 76, Times 3 May 76

3 HC 362 80/81 p115

4 Western Morning News 1, 2 May, Plymouth Evening Herald 30 Apr, 1 May

5 Not reported as a collision but fire damage. Hydroplanes

taken from HMS RENOWN in Rosyth, HA 19 Jan 73, DP 2 Feb 73.

Several reliable sources have confirmed this was a collision.

6 D Forghan, weapons officer, HMS SCEPTRE, this week, 19 Sep 91;

JE Moore & R Compton Hall, Submarine Warfare, Michael Joseph,

1986, p39.

7 HC 369 90/91, p60, 62

8 NP3, p2

9 HA 23 Feb 79

10 Naval Nuclear Bases, p4

11 Submarine Warfare, p39.

12 HC 369 90/91, p86f

13 HC 316 88/89, p40f

14 HC 36 80/81,

15 Spotlight Feb 84

16 Spotlight Sep 79

17 HC369 90/91, p86f

18 This Week, 19 Sep 91

19 HC 399 72/73 px

20 HC 36 80/81 p201

SECTION 2

1 Independent 31 Jan 90, HC 69 90/91, p27

2 HC 369 90/91 p 64; RRA couldn't repair - Observer 11 Nov 90

3 Sightings from Faslane Peace Camp

4 HC 337 91/92 p3, DP Oct 87

page 26 5 Scotsman 28 Sep 91; this week, 19 Sep 91

6 HC 337 91/92 p3,5

7 HC 337 91/92 p38

8 HC 69 90/91, p30; HC 369 90/91 p 64

9 HC 69 90/91 p30

10 Sightings from Faslane Peace Camp

11 Navy News Dec 90; HC 69 90/91 p30

12 Sightings from Faslane Peace Camp

13 HC 337 91/92 p 37

14 HC 69 90/91 p 20

15 Reactor System Defects

16 R Farmer, This Week, 19 Sep 91; Independent 11 May 91;

Reactor System Defects.

17 VSEL Link Jun 91

18 Reactor System Defects

19 Independent 11 May 91

20 Sunday Mail 22 Feb 88; DP 4 Mar 88

21 letter from submariner, Reactor System Defects, p6

22 Clyde Public Safety Scheme 3-1

23 Naval Nuclear Bases, p3

24 HC369 90/91 p86f

SECTION 3

1 Daily Record, 22 Jan 90

2 Scotsman 31 Jan 903 HC 69 90/91, p19, 27

4 Times 29 Oct 91

5 HC 69 90/91, p27

6 Spotlight Mar 83

7 Spotlight Jun 80

8 Statistical Bulletin radioactive discarges in Scotland,

1980-84, Scottish Office

9 HC 361 88/89 p41

10 HC 479 90/91, pxiii

11 Spotlight Feb 84

12 Welding of handhole toroid on Steam Generator of

HMS RESOLUTION, Spotlight Nov 83.

13 R Farmer, This Week, 19 Sep 91

14 Scotsman 28 Sep 91

15 5 containers from RRA were alongside HMS REPULSE at

Faslane, late Jan & early Feb 92

16 Independent, 19 Nov 90

17 R Farmer, This Week, 19 Sep 91

18 HC 369 90/91, p53

19 Guardian 1 Oct 91

SECTION 4

1 Nov 90, HC 69 90/91, p19

2 Apr 91, HC 369 90/91, p12f

3 This Week, 19 Sep 91; HC 337 91/92 p xiv

4 J Crane, The Submarine, BBC, 1984, p180f

5 HC 369 90/91, p35

6 The submarine, p197; FW Lipscomb, The British Submarine,

Conway Maritime Press, 1975, p 231

7 The submarine, p9

8 SIPRI yearbook 1986, p61

page 27 SECTION 5

1 DP 9 May 80, 2 Oct 87; New cores exceeded the previous limit of 6 years,

HC 479 84/5, q1897

2 Nuclear Engineering International, Mar 88

3 HA 26 Nov 82; HC 337 91/92 p 3

4 Navy News Jan 92

5 Independent 11 May 91, Scotsman 28 Sep 91

6 Submarine Warfare, p39

7 HC 337 90/91 p4

8 HMS RENOWN will not be out of refit until late 1992, HC 337 90/91 pxiv

SECTION 6

1 Observer 14 Feb 88

2 Guardian 15 Feb 88

SECTION 7

1 There is no longer a need to be ready for a bolt from the blue

attack according to Michael Clarke, Director, Centre for Defence

Studies, Scotsman 7 May 1992.

ANNEX A

1 Sanity Sep 89, p5

2 NP3, p31

3 Sanity Sep 89, p5; NP3, p37

4 DP 21 Aug 70

5 DP 7 Jul 72

6 HA 10 Jan 75

7 HA 11 Jul 75

8 Navy News May 76; NP3, p54

9 Guardian 3 May 76; HA 7 May 76

10 HA 7 Mar 80

11 Sanity Sep 89, p5; NP3, p64

12 DP 20 Sep 85; Spotlight Apr 86

13 Western Morning News 1 May 92; Plymouth Dump Information Group

14 Guardian 28 Aug 87; NP3, p70

15 NP3, p71

16 Observed by Faslane Peace Camp

17 Western Morning News 1 May 92; Plymouth Dump Information Group

18 Lennox Herald 25 Oct 91

19 Western Morning News 1 May 92; Plymouth Dump Information Group

20 HA 7 Oct 69; NP3, p38

21 Glasgow Herald 2 Feb 82

22 HA 19 Jan 73; DP 2 Feb 73

23 This Week 19 Sep 91

24 NP3, p67

25 NP3, p71

26 HC 369 90/91 p60

27 NP3, p35

28 Glasgow Herald 2 Feb 82

29 Sunday Mail 22 Oct 89

30 HA 12 Jan 68; NP3, p35

31 NP3, p37

32 NP3, p47

33 HA 23 Feb 79

34 NP3, p58

page 28 ANNEX B

1 NP3, p39

2 Spotlight Dec 73

3 HC362 80/81 p113

4 Spotlight

5 HC362 80/81 p113; Naval Architect Jan 91

6 Reactor System Defects, figure 5

7 Spotlight May 80

8 Spotlight May 80; Statistical Bulletin on Radioactive Waste

Discharges in Scotland 1980-84, Scottish Office

9 Spotlight Jan 84

10 Spotlight Sep 84

11 Spotlight Nov 86

12 HC 359 87/88 p13; Guardian 22 Dec 88

13 Sunday Mail 22 Feb 88

14 Plymouth Dump Information Group

15 HC 69 90/91 p27f; Plymouth Dump Information Group

16 NP3, p58

17 NP3, p59

18 HA 22 May 81

19 Sightings and information from Faslane Peace Camp

ANNEX D

1 HA 29 May 70, 28 May 71

2 DP 25 May 71; HA 5 Jan 73

3 DP 24 Nov 72, 25 Jan 74

4 DP 1 Feb 74, 18 Apr 75

5 DP 11 Apr 75; HA 27 Nov 76

6 Spotlight Dec 76; HA 21 Jul 78

7 DP 7 Jul 78, 9 May 80

8 DP 25 Apr 80; HA 26 Nov 82; HC 337 91/92 p3

9 DP 20 Aug 82

10 HA 2 Nov 84; Spotlight Nov 86

11 Spotlight Nov 86

12 DP 2 Oct 87

ANNEX E

based on sightings from Faslane Peace Camp

ANNEX F

1 HC 337 91/92 pv

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