On this day in 1983, the UK’s first nuclear-powered submarine HMS Dreadnought paid off in Chatham Dockyard. 42 years later she still awaits disposal in Rosyth but her famous name will return with the first Ballistic Missile Submarine of the Vanguard replacements later this decade.

 

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