As you are aware I do a lot of running.  I have sponsored many of you for your good causes, I ask you that you now do the same for me!

 

I will be running the London 2014 Marathon supporting The Royal Navy Submarine Museum.  This is a very worthy charity in my eyes which remembers past and current submariners and the hardship they had to endure.

As this is my last year running the Virgin London Marathon I ask you all donate anything you can. (Money preferred)!  To donate is easy, all you have to do it hold down the CTRL+Click on the link below and this will take you to my Justgiving Page-Select DONATE and just follow the simply instructions.

 

If anyone has a problem doing this please feel free to contact me.

Royal Navy Submarine Museum

News release

Restored historic submarine to open Easter 2014

after a £6.75m refit

 

A £6.75m conservation project to restore the historic WWII era submarine HMS Alliance based at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, Hampshire will be completed and ready for Easter 2014. This unique submarine which is the only surviving British WWII era submarine in the world and the memorial to 5,300 British submariners, who gave their lives in service, will be completely restored throughout and boasts new interpretation, state of the art lighting and soundscapes to bring the submarine to life.

A visit onboard HMS Alliance will begin with a brand new “Alliance” film narrated by British Hollywood star Ian McShane, specially commissioned to support this project highlighting life onboard from WWII through the Cold War until the 1970’s. With new dressing and lighting inside the submarine, the visitor will then take a time journey through every decade of the submarine’s service from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Visitors will be guided through the submarine by a veteran submariner who will tell their stories of working beneath the waves and they will experience life on board with noises, smells and be able to use the working periscope to view Portsmouth Harbour.

Chris Munns, Director at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum said, “ A visit onboard HMS Alliance will assault all the senses and really bring to life what it is like to work and live on a submarine.  We are very proud of HMS Alliance and delighted that she has been saved for future generations”

For more information contact Bill Sainsbury, 07725641448, 023 9254 5034, bill.sainsbury@submarine-museum.co.uk 

New facilities will also be available. For visitors with disabilities a platform lift will take wheelchair users into a compartment of the submarine for the very first time and tailored audio guides of the tour of HMS Alliance will be available in foreign languages and for very young children.

HMS Alliance is undergoing a £6.75m conservation project to save her from severe corrosion and decline. £3.4m was donated by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the remaining funds have been raised through a three year fundraising campaign led by the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Moored on cradles by the Museum quayside since 1982, the outer structure of HMS Alliance had corroded so badly that parts were literally in danger of falling into the sea below, a process that had proved hard to arrest due to difficulties of access.   

HMS Alliance was designed during WWII for service in the Far East and was launched in 1945, as victory was achieved. She then began a distinguished 28 year career during the Cold War until she retired and became the centrepiece of the Submarine Museum.

As well as the physical conservation of HMS Alliance, a new education and volunteering programme has been developed. Over a hundred volunteers from the local community are involved to save HMS Alliance through undertaking duties at special fundraising events, helping conserve the submarine and working behind the scenes in the archives  

HMS Alliance has remained open throughout most of the conservation process. A visit to the Royal Navy Submarine also includes visiting the Royal Navy’s first submarine Holland 1 and the only surviving WW2 midget submarine X24.  The family friendly museum has working periscopes, hands on interactive games, the “Horrible Science of Submarines” exhibition and a new family play centre “Busy Boat Bay”.  For more information visit www.submarine-museum.co.uk or call 023 92545036.

For more information contact Bill Sainsbury, 07725641448, 023 9254 5034, bill.sainsbury@submarine-museum.co.uk

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