HTP engined submarines in RN service

[Rheged]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=miP3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PP214&lpg=PP214&dq=hms+explorer+john+winton&source=bl&ots=WYMU8s8zPP&sig=CamF2T8QL3d5JsnBYciqRvn7E3o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5v7uczqPYAhWBHsAKHb6VDY4Q6AEITjAK#v=onepage&q=hms%20explorer%20john%20winton&f=false

A fascinating story of machinery that refused to run on Sundays....it's worth reading the whole story of HM Ships Exploder and Excruciator.

[PR19_Kit]

I could tell stories about Rolls Royce body shells built on Mondays that always failed inspection and had to be fettled. And about road simulator control systems that had to be re-booted every Thursday too, but they're perhaps for a different thread than this fascinating one.

[The Rat]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=miP3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PP214&lpg=PP214&dq=hms+explorer+john+winton&source=bl&ots=WYMU8s8zPP&sig=CamF2T8QL3d5JsnBYciqRvn7E3o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5v7uczqPYAhWBHsAKHb6VDY4Q6AEITjAK#v=onepage&q=hms%20explorer%20john%20winton&f=false

A fascinating story of machinery that refused to run on Sundays....it's worth reading the whole story of HM Ships Exploder and Excruciator.

Wasn't until I clicked the link that I realised you had made a spelling error, and my main question was answered: Who the $%*# would name a ship HMS Exploder?! 

[Rheged]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=miP3BgAAQBAJ&pg=PP214&lpg=PP214&dq=hms+explorer+john+winton&source=bl&ots=WYMU8s8zPP&sig=CamF2T8QL3d5JsnBYciqRvn7E3o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5v7uczqPYAhWBHsAKHb6VDY4Q6AEITjAK#v=onepage&q=hms%20explorer%20john%20winton&f=false

A fascinating story of machinery that refused to run on Sundays....it's worth reading the whole story of HM Ships Exploder and Excruciator.

Wasn't until I clicked the link that I realised you had made a spelling error, and my main question was answered: Who the $%*# would name a ship HMS Exploder?! 

No spelling mistake, that's what the crew called Explorer and Excalibur!!