Stickleback(1955)
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Description
Photographed in 1955 HMS Stickleback was a direct development of the wartime X-craft and designed for the same purpose, the placing of externally carried charges beneath specialised naval targets. The X-51 series of submarines were mainly deployed in harbour penetration trials and exercises. The Royal Navy X-craft unit was disbanded in 1958. Many other navies across the world employed examples of midget submarines including the Soviet Navy, where they were used for intelligence gathering missions during the Cold War. Stickleback was built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow and launched in 1954 as X51. She served the Royal Navy as HMS Stickleback until 1957.In 1956 she was used in the development of the naval CUDGEL nuclear mine, based on the BLUE DANUBE and RED BEARD airborne nuclear bombs. After a refit X51 was sold to the Royal Swedish Navy in 1965 and was renamed Spriggen, which is Swedish for Stickleback. They used the vessel primary for training purposes. X51 was acquired by the Imperial War Museum in 1976 -
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Further information
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42117802@N06/4976485238/
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 2 hours, 16 minutes ago
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Picture Taken: 2010-09-10T09:44:40 -
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