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s commanding officer at the time of the accident and two other officers were reprimanded for their roles in the collision. All three pleaded guilty to the charges of neglecting to perform their duty in failing to notice that the submarine was traveling towards the pinnacle. Despite the incident, all
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was sailing south at that time but the speculation was useful to promote the apparent threat of the Royal Navy in the South Atlantic and was not corrected by the Navy or
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then continued back to the UK, arriving at Devonport Dockyard on 28 June 2008. After surveying the damage, the Royal Navy decided to decommission
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and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 13 November 1976. After being damaged in May 2008 in the Red Sea, she returned to
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In January 2008 a sentry was found sleeping while on watch; the reprimand to the crew was caught on video.
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three officers were still serving in the Royal Navy at the time of the court-martial.
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where she was decommissioned slightly ahead of schedule on 26 September 2008.
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Swiftsure-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Royal Navy
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1 × Rolls-Royce pressurised water nuclear reactor (PWR1)
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operated in the Indian Ocean in 2001, in support of
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to enforce a maritime exclusion zone. In fact, only
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Index

HMS Superb

Vickers
Pennant number

Swiftsure-class
submarine
21 in (533 mm)
Spearfish torpedoes
Sub Harpoon missiles
submarine
Swiftsure class
Royal Navy
Vickers Shipbuilding Group
BAE Systems
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
HMNB Devonport
Arctic Ocean
Falklands War
Gibraltar
South Atlantic
Spartan
Ministry of Defence
Operation Veritas
War in Afghanistan
pinnacle
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Souda Bay

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