"The crews of all submarines captured should be treated as pirates and hanged".The words of Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson VC, the Controller of the Navy, reveal why the Jolly Roger is the emblem of the Royal Navy Submarine Service. The Museum celebrates those pioneers who daily risked their lives to prove the submarine a viable and successful craft. By the end of World War 1 the submarine had truly come of age. Five of the Service’s fourteen Victoria Crosses had been won, the first by Lieutenant Norman Holbrook, Commanding Officer of HMS B11. Rudyard Kipling recognised the extraordinary social change that the submarine had brought about in the Royal Navy when he wrote ....the submarine has created its own type of officer and man - with language and tradition apart from the rest of the Service, and yet at heart unchangingly of the Service. By the end of World War Two the Submarine Service had added a further nine Victoria Crosses and numerous battle honours to an ever growing list. Winston Churchill recognised the courage and sacrifice of the men of the Submarine Service when he said Great deeds are done in the air and on the land, nevertheless there is no part to be compared to your exploits. Since the end of the Second World War the Royal Navy Submarine Service has assumed the role of Peacekeeper. Its Attack and Deterrent submarines played a vital role during the Cold War and the contribution these vessels have made were to be summed up by the Daily Telegraph in 1967 HMS Resolution, in making the first dive of her patrol into the waters of a troubled world, will be taking out on behalf of the nation the best insurance policy it has ever had.