With a British carrier task force in the South China Sea, along with two American task forces plus their attending submarines, the incident is a reminder that what goes on out of sight is not always out of mind. Later press reports published after Sceptre's return home said the damaged British boat had hit an iceberg. Sceptre had been quietly trailing the Soviet boat and was taken by surprise when she slowed, leading to much of Sceptre's outer casing being "torn away" by the Soviet's propeller – the cause of the three juddering strikes as the British boat bounced off her Russian opponent's stern. Naval historian Iain Ballantyne recounted in his book Hunter Killers that the Soviet sub's sonar operators told their captain all was clear behind them: "Twenty-one minutes later, at 1951, the Soviet SSBN juddered as she sustained three short glancing impacts astern and from below, each lasting only a few seconds". 'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport. UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice.We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS.
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