Three women have become the first women to serve on a submarine in the 110 years of the ‘Silent Service’.
Following months of training, the three women have each earned their ‘dolphins’ badge. the much-prized symbol of a submariner.
The role of women in the Royal Navy has changed drastically: 20 years ago they began serving at sea in surface ships, and in 2011 the Defence Secretary lifted the ban preventing women from serving on submarines.
IN REMEMBRANCE
THE following are being spe-cially remembered at Bradford Cathedral this week: Philip Heap Hustwick, Norman Haigh, John Derrick Hodgson, Charles Herbert Holmes, Frank Ibbotson, James Newman Inman, John Percival Iredale, Ernest Ireton, James William Ingram, Henry Jacques, Alan Adolph James, Leonard Jefferson, Albert Edward Jenkinson, Stanley Jenkinson, Charles Johnson, Wilfred Jowett, Frank Jennings, James Leslie Johnson, Philip Johnson, George Wilfred Johnson, George Stanton Jones, Donald Jowett.
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