Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Submarine H.M.S. CHURCHILL at Queen Alexandra Dock entrance lock, Cardiff.

Submarine - pennant no. S46. Laid down June 1967 by Vickers Engineering & Shipbuilding Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, and completed and commissioned in 1970. She was the first of three Churchill-class nuclear powered submarines, and was euipped with a Rolls –Royce reactor, and fitted with pump-jet propulsion. She was de-commissioned in February 1991 and is currently (2013) laid up at Rosyth awaiting disposal. (wikipedia)( www.rnsubs.co.uk/Boats/BoatDB2/index.php?BoatID=685)