The Submariners' Database

One of the Museum's principal objectives is to maintain an accurate record of where individual officers and ratings served, as well as tracking the activities of each submarine hull. The advent of 'computer-assisted' appointing/drafting by HMS Centurion in 1969 has caused significant difficulty. Prior to this date, career details were kept on cards in Blockhouse and the Museum holds over 50,000 of these. Since then, for a variety of reasons, it has become increasingly difficult to extract information from the computerised database. The result is that our records have become badly out of date and we have 'lost' large numbers of you from the corporate memory. Indeed we have no records at all for our engineering fraternity, because all the cards were consigned to a skip!

One of our major tasks therefore is to rebuild the picture and I would be most grateful if you would print out and return the registration form. This will enable us to preserve our heritage and allow bona fide researchers, as well as our descendants, to gather accurate information about us and our fine service. We would also welcome a single page of A4 'biography' to fill in the gaps between appointments/drafts, your major achievements, and, for example, what you did on leaving the service.