It was my parents generation which put forth so much courage.

Well, it was also the generation of so many Brits who had the courage to go confined in a tube so to fight a horrible enemy.

Britain's last surviving Second World War-era submarine HMS Alliance reopens its hatches after £7m makeover


HMS Alliance – the only British surviving Second World War-era submarine – has reopened

its hatches following a major £7m restoration project.

The 281ft sub, based at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, has been completely restored with new interpretation, lighting and soundscapes to form one of three major exhibitions marking 100 years of untold stories at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Tours on board now begin with a new film narrated by British Hollywood star Ian McShane, highlighting life on HMS Alliance from WWII through the Cold War until the 1970s.

I do not have a way to compare the living conditions, but my visit to the American boat,

  BOWFIN  brought me to a new reality.