Does another kind of minefield await HMS Neptune of today?

ON THE night of 19 December, 1941, there occurred one of the worst British naval disasters of the Second World War. The cruiser HMS Neptune ran into a minefield off the coast of North Africa and exploded with the loss of 764 men.

To go from the heroes of that HMS Neptune to the present-day HMS Neptune is to traverse the radically changing way society views the military. For the modern HMS Neptune is the official name of the Royal Navy submarine base at Faslane, on the Gare Lo...