Latest Sub. Gets Stuck In Mud
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) BARROW (England), November 5. Britain’s newest Polaris nuclear submarine, the £55 million, eßpulse, spent last night stuck in the mud at Barrow.
The 7000-ton vessel ran aground yesterday an hour after she was launched during violent clashes between police and 700 anti-nuclear demonstrators.
her that floated into the water during the launching. The launching ceremony was carried out by Lady Joan Zuckerman, wife of the Government’s South African-born chief scientific adviser, Sir Solly Zuckerman.
Six tugs pulled the 400 ft submarine free early today. Yesterday three tugs tried to free the Repulse soon after she ran aground. But as darkness fell the attempt was abandoned until this morning’s flood tide. Extra tugs were called in from Liverpool for the successful refloating, carried out under the light of powerful arc lamps and watched by a crowd. Afterwards the Repulse continued its short voyage to the fitting-out dock. A spokesman for Vickers, the firm which built the Repulse, said it was believed she was trapped on a sandbank by pieces of loose tim-
Police earlier battled with youths and mini girls who flung themselves in front of cars as the 4000 guests arrvied for the ceremony.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 13
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