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This is the website of the Barrow-in-Furness Branch of the Submariners Association. The Premier UK resource on the internet for Submariners and anyone interested in the Royal Navy Submarine Service.

Vickers and Barrow are names synonymous with the development of the submarine. Hundreds of submarines covering virtually every class have been built for the Royal Navy and foreign Navies. This site is dedicated to not only to those who have served on Her Majesty's Submarines but also to those employees past and present whose skills and efforts have given pride to the phrase 'Barrow built' and made the name Vickers known and respected throughout the world.

Latest News March 9, 2014 One killed in accident at Indian nuclear submarine building yard  March 7, 2014 OTD 1916: HMS E5 was sunk by by the German Cruiser Strassburg in the North Sea.  March 7, 2014 Problem found in land-based test nuclear reactor means HMS Vanguard will have to be refuelled at cost of £120m  March 6, 2014 OTD 1944: XE11 was lost while exercising in Loch Striven when she collided with a boom defence vessel laying buoys  March 4, 2014 OTD 1942: HMS Torbay penetrated the Corfu anchorage, attacked & then escaped. Cdr Miers was awarded the VC.  March 3, 2014 OTD 1971: HMS Dreadnought became the first British submarine to surface at the North Pole  March 2, 2014 OTD 1918: HMS H5 was lost, rammed in error in Irish Sea by SS Rutherglen.  March 1, 2014 Four Navy submariners have been taken ashore after a fire broke out on one of Australia's Collins Class submarines.  March 1, 2014 India submarine INS Sindhuratna: Navy says missing sailors are dead  February 27, 2014 OTD 1943: HMS Tigris lost to depth charges from UJ2210 whilst on patrol south of Naples  February 26, 2014 India submarine: Smoke injures sailors on INS Sindhuratna  February 25, 2014 OTD 1880: The world's 1st mechanically-driven submarine Resurgam, built by Rev George Garrett sank in a heavy swell.  February 24, 2014 OTD 1943: HMS Vandal was lost. The shortest living Barrow built vessel. Cause of loss remains unknown.  February 23, 2014 Vietnam joins submarine arms race amid South China Sea tensions  February 23, 2014 OTD 1942: P38 was depth charged by Italian TB Circe & Usodimare off Tunisian coast	Have You Read Experimental Types Considering that British submarine construction and Royal Navy interest in submarines had begun only 13 years before, the Admiralty must have been very bold indeed to decide, with war clouds on the horizon, that the time had come for expanding the submarine fleet and trying experimental types. Read It Recent Forum Topics Captain's Cabin  Diesel 'T' HF aerials 10-Mar-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  submarine escape 10-Mar-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  Thetis clip 07-Mar-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  HMS Astute question 05-Mar-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  Casing party 03-Mar-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  VIDEO RNSM 03-Mar-2014  by Fingers Captain's Cabin  Diesel S class escape hatches 26-Feb-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  SSN VERTICAL MISSILE LAUNCHERS 19-Feb-2014  by Lofty Captain's Cabin  RN submarines WWII patrols... 17-Feb-2014  by SnakeDoc Resurgam  Whacker Payne 16-Feb-2014  by four	Latest Updates 22 Feb 2014     Branch Rollcall   30 Dec 2013     Latest News Reinstated   30 Dec 2013     ASDIC Equipment Installation In Early Royal Navy Submarines   05 Dec 2013     Newsletter   17 Nov 2013     Branch Database   16 Nov 2013     Branch Rollcall   Full Change Log
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