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Revealing the Midget Class Submarines from X-Class to Stickleback. The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a 'mother' submarine with a passage crew on board. Their midget size meant they could attack with stealth, and subsequently return to their towing submarine. Beginning with a look back over the wartime craft, this new study from ex-Submariner Keith Hall charts the evolution of the midget class submarine and how they evolved, from X3 through X and XE, and onto the short lived and unique Stickleback class by the 1950s. Only four Stickleback submarines were ever produced, with grand plans to use them to carry a 15-kiloton nuclear naval mine codenamed Cudgel deep into Soviet harbours. Only one remains, the others having all been scrapped, now residing in the Scottish Submarine Centre in Helensburgh. With a wealth of imagery from the museum archives, this book tells the little-known story of the midget class subs. AUTHOR: Keith Hall was a health physics specialist at HM Naval Base Clyde and served in the Royal Navy for over 30 years, both on the submarines and in on-shore positions. He has written several books on British submarine history, including HMS Dolphin: Gosport's Submarine Base, Submariners' Tales from the Deep, and Polaris: The History of the UK's Submarine Force. He lives in Helensburgh. 111 b/w illustrations

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KEITH HALL was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. After leaving school at 18 years old, he joined the Royal Navy and spent thirty-three years in the medical branch; the majority of this time was spent on nuclear submarines or in shore billets in support of the Nuclear Propulsion Program. After leaving the Navy in 2003, he worked as a health physicist at HM Naval Base Clyde. He retired in 2015. An avid collector of old photographs and postcards, Keith Hall writes about local and naval history, particularly focusing on submarines. He is currently working on a book about the Navy’s Trident submarines, a follow-on to his work about the history of the Royal Navy’s Polaris programme.

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