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Life Underwater: Inside the HMS Alliance

Maritime Stories • 28m

Submarine veteran Commodore Eric Thompson gives Dan Snow a tour of HMS Alliance, now preserved at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Portsmouth.

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