A Barrow-Built Submarine Story (2024) | Documentary

A Barrow-Built Submarine Story is a documentary film recalling the history of submarine building in Barrow-in-Furness and its shipyard from 1886 to the present day. The film was was produced by John Rennie Creative Media for The Dock Museum's Shipyard Town Gallery and was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and BAE Systems.

Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:44 Early Submarines
03:11 WW1
05:56 WW2
09:14 Cold War
11:06 HMS Dreadnought
14:24 HMS Resolution
18:14 1970s
19:43 1980s
24:01 End of the Cold War & HMS Vanguard
28:16 BAE Systems & Astute-class Submarines
32:50 End Sequence

CREDITS:
Written & Narrated by John Rennie & Sally Ann Staunton
Edited and Produced by John Rennie
Image digitisation by Tess Baxter & The Dock Museum
Colourisation By Neil Loughran

[renniecreative]

Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:44 Early Submarines
03:11 WW1
05:56 WW2
09:14 Cold War
11:06 HMS Dreadnought
14:24 HMS Resolution
18:14 1970s
19:43 1980s
24:01 End of the Cold War & HMS Vanguard
28:16 BAE Systems & Astute-class Submarines
32:50 End Sequence

[paulrennie]

A fantastic documentary that pulls together all of our great achievements in submarine design and construction. The combination of poetic narrative, original footage and musical links enhance the story like nothing else could. Educational, historical, evocative and highly entertaining. A gift to the people of Barrow past and present. A shipyard and town to be proud of.
Congratulations John and Sally, inspiring work.

[MidFlightCrisis]

As an ex - submariner, I have a soft spot for Barrow having been there several times. What a history!!!!

[siramsay]

A beautifully crafted piece of work all round, in my humble opinion. The obviously impeccably researched historical information, the editing of the available visual material, along with a stunningly lyrical poetic script, and appropriate narration; this is certainly the genre of documentaries coming into a new style and age.

[davesharpe]

From a former Submariner, this is a very fine Documentary!...

[bagsoflove]

Absolute superb film/documentary. A passionate and concise summary of the history of submarines in the town. Very well done JR. Beautifully narrated and some of the imagery from days gone by is wonderful.

[heatherrawls]

Loved this. Especially the rhyming commentary

[jmanjon]

That's completely brilliant, thank you. I'm going to watch it again now. Well done.

[WidleyWesident]

A fantastic video. Pictures, narrative, history and future. Love this. Rule Britannia! ❤️❤️❤️

[rosscassidy]

Great documentry and a great unique styl of narration. Barrow built my first and last submarines, Oberon & Courageous, out of the four I served on (in) during the 70s & early 80's. Barrow boats where always considered the best boats, and so proved to be too. Like eveyrthing else though, the longer peace reigns the less politicians think we need submarines and the skilled people that build them...

[Peter-dh]

A terrific video. Well worth watching!

[sarabovenzi]

What a FABULOUS film. I've recently moved to Plymouth and have for some reason been doing a lot of research into the journey of the dismantling of the decommissioned subs, pretty much all of them featured in your documentary. I started to feel quite emotional as the documentary progressed and seeing their beginnings and knowing that 15 of them sit in retirement in one of the docks at Devonport just down from where I and to see HMS Swiftsure who is now in her final stage of dismantling (disposal sounds too harsh).

[davekent]

served on renown, courageous and churchill, you built us good boats

[theflyingfool]

That was very impressive. I'm totally awed by the enterprise and ingenuity of those who make these vessels. Long may they continue to do so, because the baddies are still out there and we need our defence.

[russelltaylor]

And once again the name of "Upholder" is left out of the Barrow story !! Proud to have served on her from first build to decommissioning, a fine boat.

[markdavis]

5:53 Kalev sank somewhere in the Baltic but her sister, Lembit, survives here in Tallinn in the Seaplane Museum.

[richardtempleton]

Absolutely fascinating film, PRIDE IN BRITISH SUBMARINE 👍 BUILDING. Great film and lovely to watch ❤

[RobertDownie-jbcu]

Well built boats, I served on Valiant, Courageous, Renown and Sceptre, great documentary

[davewood]

I'm proud to say I've played a small part in this story

[boffingeorge]

Everyone said Submarine building was a stupid way to go but Redshaw, was right that the liner market was going to be a bun fight.