>A young female officer accused of having a sexual liaison with the captain on board a nuclear submarine is said to have worn his uniform and given inebriated orders in the officers’ mess, including directions to launch the vessel's ballistic arsenal.
>The weapons engineering officer reportedly wore the captain’s gold epaulettes and issued orders during “boozy horseplay” with other officers on board HMS Vigilant, which included orders to fire Trident missiles - the vessel's primary armament - upon the city of Glasgow.
>The crew members from HMS Vigilant, one of four submarines to carry the nuclear deterrent Trident, were kicked out after failing compulsory drugs tests.
>HMS Vigilant was already at the centre of an alleged sex scandal involving its captain and a female officer.
>The second-in-command on board the vessel, 36-year-old Lieutenant Commander Michael Seal, was also put on a plane back to the UK after claims he was having a relationship with another female crew member.
