In this first episode of 'Submarine' we meet the crew on board HMS Superb as they prepare to set sail. Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv

Giving a unique insight into the lives of some of the country's best submariners, this series spends 12 months charting the ups and downs of HMS Superb a nuclearpowered submarine that can remain undetected underwater for months on end.

The first of a new six part series for Carlton/Meridian, "Submarine" follows a year in the life of HMS Superb as she comes out of a three and a half year £200 million refit and back into active service. The Submarine Service has always attracted a special type of sailor. Dismissed even by the Admiralty in 1902 as "underhand, unfair and damned unEnglish". Without a doubt it takes a particular type of person to be a submariner and a particular type of person to be a submariners wife. Away from home for months at a time and with no way of keeping in touch with home it's a way of life that most of us would find untenable.

This film was first broadcast: 07 Jan 2000

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