OK you lot seem to have given up.
While the Beatles were in Portsmouth for a gig (March 64) a yellow submarine could be seen across the harbour at HMS Dolphin, at the time the Royal Navy's Main diesel submarine base.The submarine was yellow because it was undergoing maintenance and it's aluminium casing (the bit you can see) had been stripped of paint and had the base coat of yellow chromate paint applied. British submarines only used aluminium casings for a short period, they were replaced with fiberglass, and then nuclear submarines came into service with steel casings.
The next bit is folklore, The Beatles were drinking with some submariners in a pub and in answer to a question one of them said "We all live in the yellow submarine over there".
The original inspiration ? Who knows.
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