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Calls for sub sinking probe
AN Author has called on the Government to re-open an investigation into the sinking of a submarine - which sank off Portland 56 years ago.
HMS Affray went missing in April 1951 just hours after leaving Gosport on a routine training exercise.
It was discovered on the seabed two months later just 46 miles south of Portland and the 75 man crew were all believed to have been killed.
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Author Alan Gallop is calling on the Ministry of Defence to re-examine why the vessel was ever allowed to leave Gosport in what he calls an unfit condition'.
Mr Gallop, 58, uncovered top-secret documents while researching for a book that led him to believe the Admiralty covered up circumstances of the incident.
AN Author has called on the Government to re-open an investigation into the sinking of a submarine - which sank off Portland 56 years ago.
HMS Affray went missing in April 1951 just hours after leaving Gosport on a routine training exercise.
It was discovered on the seabed two months later just 46 miles south of Portland and the 75 man crew were all believed to have been killed.
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Author Alan Gallop is calling on the Ministry of Defence to re-examine why the vessel was ever allowed to leave Gosport in what he calls an unfit condition'.
Mr Gallop, 58, uncovered top-secret documents while researching for a book that led him to believe the Admiralty covered up circumstances of the incident.