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This website is brought to you in association with the Barrow-in-Furness Branch of the Submariners Association and is the premier UK internet resource for Submariners and anyone interested in Royal Navy Submarines.

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.

On This Day - October 11

1909 C 30 (I 60) Completed
1915 E 19 (I 99) Sank 'Walter Leonhardt'
1915 E 19 (I 99) Pursued the 'Germania' until she ran aground, left to natures fate.
1919 L 21 Launched
1935 Oberon (N 21) Damaged in collision with the destroyer HMS Thanet at Devonport.
1939 Undine (N 48) HMS Undine ran engine trials off Blyth.
1940 Usk (N 65) Completed
1942 Unruffled (P 46) HMS Unruffled torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Una 4 nautical miles bearing 190 of Isola di Capri.
1942 P 52 / Dzik (Polish) Launched
1942 Traveller (N 48) HMS Traveller attacked the German auxiliary minelayer Bulgaria with two torpedoes to the West of Crete. No hits are obtained.
1943 Sturgeon (N 73) / Zeehond (Dutch) Recommissioned as HNLMS Zeehond, under command of Donald Theodoor Mackay
1944 Virtue (P 75) HMS Virtue sinks a watercarrier and two smaller vessels with gunfire off Cape Dhia, Crete, Greece.
1944 O 10 (Dutch) Decommissioned
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