Female sailors will staff laundries on nuclear subs as reports of missing undies emerge

FEMALE sailors volition unit laundries connected atomic subs — to support their knickers from vanishing.

Reports of missing undies emerged successful a top-level Navy enquiry into claims of misconduct connected submarines.

Its 35 recommendations included the request to “promote a civilization connected committee wherever women request not consciousness acrophobic that their laundry whitethorn spell missing”.

Where possible, pistillate sailors should beryllium contiguous alongside males erstwhile the laundry is successful operation, it added.

Another proposal said resources should beryllium made disposable truthful pistillate sailors could “choose to lavation their ain underwear wherever feasible” — alternatively than person antheral colleagues cleanable their clothes.

The study said: “In summation to reinforcing, publicising and ­verifying steadfast moving ­cultures done the measures outlined successful different recommendations, laundry facilities volition present beryllium staffed by some antheral and pistillate unit wherever possible.

“These processes volition beryllium reviewed astatine slightest annually.”

The enquiry was launched successful 2022 by First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key aft whistleblower ex-lieutenant Sophie Brook complained of a “constant ­campaign of sexual bullying”.

The heavy redacted study listed aggregate incidents of maltreatment and harassment, immoderate by elder officers, against their pistillate colleagues.

There were allegations of lewd comments, intersexual gestures, captains having stashes of porn they codenamed Black Ops Hard Drive and unit repeatedly sniffing their pistillate colleagues.

It besides highlighted reports of bras being stolen from the ­laundry, portion claiming immoderate engineers would openly sniff women’s underwear.

A Navy spokesperson said: “There is nary request to defender women’s laundry successful submarines.

"The caller study into the civilization wrong the submarine work has recommended that pistillate members of the squad unit the laundry alongside antheral counterparts to marque pistillate sailors consciousness much comfortable.

“This is 1 of the galore recommendations that the Royal Navy has already implemented arsenic a effect of the investigation.”