CONTENTS

	List of Illustrations
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
1.	1951: Postwar Blues, Radio Times
2.	The Silent Service and His Majesty’s Submarine Affray
3.	‘Dear Dad, I Think This Boat Is Just About Finished . . .’
4.	Exercise Training Spring
5.	Monday 16 April 1951: ‘Cloak and Dagger Stuff’
6.	Tuesday 17 April 1951: Subsmash
7.	Wednesday 18 April 1951: ‘Communication Has Been Established With Affray’
8.	Thursday 19 April 1951: The Flame Burns Low
9.	Heartfelt Sympathy, Personal Effects, Inventions and Visionary Suggestions
10.	Friday 20 April/Saturday 21 April 1951: ‘One of the Great Unfathomable Mysteries of the Present Time’
11.	Sunday 22 April/Monday 23 April 1951: ‘No Escape Was Possible by Any Means’
12.	May–June 1952: The Ugly Duckling
13.	The Broken Snort
14.	Engineers Examine the Snort Mast
15.	The First Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Collude
16.	The Board of Inquiry Investigates
17.	The Board Calls Witnesses
18.	‘We Do Not Concur’ and a Question of Salvage or Scrap
19.	No Mark Upon Their Common Grave
20.	‘Should I Be in His Shoes, I Should Ask For a Court Martial’
21.	A Roll-Call of Honours
22.	The Sunday Pictorial Exclusive: ‘We Were Not Fit to Go to Sea’
23.	‘It Happened Suddenly and None of Us Expected it,’ said the Spectre
24.	‘Who Had the Right to Send my Father to Sea in a Death Ship?’
25.	Taking Credit and the Conspiracy
26.	What Happened to the Affray? A Professional Perspective
27.	The Strange Case of Steward Ray Vincent
28.	‘As I Looked Down, She Looked Very Peaceful’
29.	Questions Demanding Answers
	Appendix: List of Crew
	Bibliography