HMS VALIANT NUCLEAR SUBMARINE CAPTAIN L8r ADMIRAL Peter Herbert 1966 PHOTO



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Photograph"" measures   26/20  CM  approx,  with  some  ageing, handling

COLD  WAR ERA  //THE MAN  WITH HIS  FINGER  ON THE NUCLEAR BUTTON , 

Admiral Sir Peter Geoffrey Marshall Herbert, KCB, OBE (28 February 1929 – 3 May 2019) was a senior Royal Navy officer and former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

Naval career

Educated at Dunchurch Hall and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Herbert was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1949.[1] He served in submarines for much of his early career and then became Commander of the nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Valiant, in 1963.

LOOK AT THE SUPRB  OBIT  ONLINE  AT  SEARCH  ++Admiral Sir Peter Herbert obituary

background   HMS  VALIANT  The sixth and most recent HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two-unit Valiant class.

Construction

She was ordered on 31 August 1960 and laid down 22 January 1962 at Vickers-Armstrongs in Barrow-in-Furness.[ The basic design concept was to use the forward design of Dreadnought together with an aft end consisting of all British nuclear machinery based on the Dounreay prototype.[]

She was launched on 3 December 1963 by Lady Thorneycroft, and finally entered service 18 July 1966.

AUTO  TEXT SCAN OF  REVERSE  GIVE  FOLLLOWIN ( WITH FLAWS __)

KING AND QUEEN OF APGHANISTAN FLEE FROM REFUGEERS.

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