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.
| 1915 | E 30 | Completed |
| 1915 | K 1 | Laid Down |
| 1915 | K 14 | Laid Down |
| 1916 | E 33 | Completed |
| 1917 | J 7 | Completed |
| 1917 | R 7 | Laid Down |
| 1917 | R 8 | Laid Down |
| 1918 | G 7 (I A9) | Sunk by enemy action in the North Sea. Contact was lost on the 23rd October and she was declared lost on 1st November, the last British submarine lost in WW1 |
| 1918 | H 41 | Completed |
| 1918 | P 555 | Laid down |
| 1939 | Sterlet (N 22) | Sterlet set-off on her 3rd war-patrol, having been ordered to patrol west of Denmark. |
| 1940 | Thetis (N 25) | Completed |
| 1940 | Thunderbolt (N 25) | Completed |
| 1940 | P 615 | Launched |
| 1941 | Utmost (N 19) | HMS Utmost destroys the Italian merchant Marigola off Kuriat Island, Tunisia. |
| 1942 | O 24 (Dutch) | Attacked a Japanese merchant vessel with two torpedoes about 60 nautical miles west-northwest of Langkawi. Two torpedoes were fired but no hits were obtained. |
| 1943 | Veldt (P 71) | Completed |
| 1943 | X 6 (Piker II) | Launched |
| 1944 | Storm (P 233) | HMS Storm sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1946 | L 26 | HMS L-26 scuttled Halifax approaches |
| 1952 | First Hydrogen Bomb | United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands |
Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
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Directed by William Fairchild, The Silent Enemy is a newly restored 1958 war film based on the real Lionel 'Buster' Crabb who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for the MI6, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1941, Britain was sustaining enormous losses fighting a war on three fronts against an ever increasing Axis power. To add to their problems, the Italians have recently created a new form of warfare - Frogmen - an intrepid band of men who travel astride small torpedo-type vessels, and attach explosive charges to the hulls of enemy ships, below their waterline.
A young Naval Lieutenant, 'Buster' Crabb, an expert in mine and bomb disposal, is sent to Gibraltar to try and combat this new threat. Never having dived before, he sets to work to master the technique of underwater operations, and soon he and his team are able to locate many of the frogmen's charges and render them harmless. But with an invasion of North Africa imminent, time is not on the Allies' side.
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