Dreams of reopening Soviet submarine at Strood still afloat despite pandemic
Published: 06:00, 01 February 2021
Looking for the perfect self isolation location? If the new strains of Covid keep growing more extreme then a U-475 Black Widow Soviet submarine could be the ideal retreat of choice.
And as luck would have it there s one moored in the River Medway just off Strood, where it has been for almost two decades.
The Black Widow submarine at Strood
But the man in charge of it, John Sutton, remains optimistic he won t have to seal the hatch and prepare to dive next time Boris Johnson calls a press conference.