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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 - December 4

1906 C 14 (I 44) Laid Down
1913 W 2 Laid Down
1915 J 3 Launched
1916 M 3 Laid Down
1918 HMCS CC-1 HMCS CC-1 paid off Halifax NS.
1928 Ambrose (F08) 1903 - 1946 Paid off into the Maintenance Reserve at Rosyth on 4 December 1928.
1939 Salmon (N 65) The German submarine U-36 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea south-west of Kristiansand, Norway, by a torpedo from the British submarine HMS Salmon.

The first U-boat to be sunk by a British submarine.
1941 Trusty (N 45) HMS Trusty makes a torpedo attack on Italian torpedo boat Orsa west of Zakynthos island, Greece. All torpedoes missed.
1941 Truculent (P 315) Laid Down
1942 Traveller (N 48) HMS Traveller sunk

On 28th November HMS Traveller was carrying out a reconnaissance patrol of the coast of Taranto as part of operation Portcullis (an attack on Italian battleships in Taranto Harbour using chariots) The submarine did not return from the operation and was probably mined on or about 4th December.
1942 Seraph (P 219) HMS Seraph fires 4 torpedoes against a convoy about 20 nautical miles west of Marettimo Island, Italy, missing the German transport ship Ankara.
1944 Shalimar (P 242) HMS Shalimar sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1969 Revenge (S 27) Completed
1987 Victorious (S 29) Laid Down
2009 Trafalgar (S 107) Decommissioned. The first vessel of her class to be taken out of service.

Trafalgar became the ninth decommissioned submarine to be stored in Plymouth while an ongoing MoD study decides how to dispose of them.
2016 Audacious (S 122) Naming ceremony held in the Devonshire Dock Hall at Barrow where Audacious is officially named by her sponsor Lady Elizabeth Jones
Lastest Comments
30/11/2025 on page Affray (P 421)
richard lacey wrote:
Not sure that a raised periscope and radar indicate a dived situation, as on my sub, they were always raised on the surface; otherwise, they could not be used
17/11/2025 on page P 222
Grace Absolom wrote:
Richard William Absolom is my grandfather. He was my dad\'s father. My dad was 3 years old when the P222 disappeared. We often talk about what might have happened.
10/11/2025 on page Thorn (N 11)
Stuart Newland wrote:
My uncle, John Leonard Newland went down on the Thorn. My dad was only about 6 when it happened but he still lays a poppy for him every year at the Royal Navy Memorial at Chatham where he is commemorated.
21/10/2025 on page Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942
L Bradley wrote:
My father Frederick Percival Collins was a leading torpedo man He served on HMS Medway and was in China 1931 I have family photos which are badly water /oil stained due I was told because they were in his wallet when his ship was torpedoed. No mention of this on his service records.
09/10/2025 on page E 54
Ian Wallace wrote:
I can confirm that Leading Seaman Crust died by suicide. He used a signal gun that was available in the conning tower where he was on duty. The effect was to blow a large part of his head off. My wife\'s grandfather was responsible for cleaning parts of his brain up which were scattered over the con ...