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 WELCOME TO OUR WEB SITE
Welcome to the web site of the H.M.S. Courageous Society which was founded in 2000 to bring together old friends and crew mates who had, at one time or another, served in the Royal Navy Fleet Submarine, H.M.S. Courageous.
Within only a few months of a search for old friends commencing the number of those wanting to meet with ex crew-mates had grown to over thirty and it soon became obvious that just a pint or two in a pub would be out of the question.
In 2002, 146 men met at The Britannia Hotel, Birmingham, for a weekend and the very first Society reunion took place. It was such a success that regular reunions are now held attracting friends and crew mates from all over the world.
The current paying membership of The Society stands at almost 250 and we are in touch with approximately 300 men who served in Courageous.
For those of you who served in Courageous or have an affiliation with her, please have a look at the membership, members and reunion pages as they will be of special interest to you.
The 2008 reunion was held over the weekend of the 4th 5th and 6th of April 2008 and a full review of the weekend’s activities are available in the 2008 reunion page.
The 2010 reunion preparation is already under way and into the planning stage and the hotel has been reserved. We hope you will look at the details and perhaps come along for one night, two nights or just for the reunion gala dinner. Whatever your decision, we hope you will contact us and keep in touch up to and including the reunion weekend.
This web site is not just intended to serve the men who went to sea in Courageous. We also hope that anyone with a general interest in the sea, the Royal Navy or submarines, will find something to interest them. The site contains general information on submarines as well as some that is a little more technical for those with a deeper interest in the subject. We are currently constructing an interactive guided tour of the submarine and this will be available in the near future.
H.M.S. Courageous was in active service for 21 years and was a cold war warrior. She served in the South Atlantic during the Falklands Campaign as well as carrying out a large number of classified patrols around the world. Much of the work she did is still classed as too sensitive to release into the public domain so there appear to be gaps in her history. We are now trying hard to fill those gaps but, in the meantime, we hope that what you do find on the web site will be interesting and entertaining.
If anyone has photographs which could be used on the web site please e-mail them to me at
courageous_society@btinternet.com
Chas Cooke (Website Manager)
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