Photo: The HMS Courgette – a Submarine Made Out of a Vegetable

This guy has got a serious case of the green fingers. Gardener Eric Rayment found a rather a large courgette in his vegetable patch and so decided to design it into a submarine.

Rayment was inspired by the HMS Alliance which is the only surviving Word War 2 ocean-going British submarine and thus, the HMS Courgette was born!

Rayment is volunteer at the Submarine Museum.

“HMS Courgette is a vegetable class submarine. Her patrol success as detailed on the Jolly Roger flag shows 3 Attack Carrots, 11 Merchant Peas and 1 Anti Submarine Tomato” he said.

Veteran submariner Andy Norris proudly showing off the giant courgette submarine in front of the HMS Alliance.

The veggie submarine will be on display in the Learning Centre at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum.

Pics via Royal Navy Submarine Museum