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.
| 1912 | Pactolus 1886 - 1912 | Commissioned at Chatham |
| 1926 | Oberon (N 21) | Launched |
| 1939 | Spearfish (N 69) | HMS Spearfish was heavily damaged by German warships off Horns Reef. She was unable to submerge but nevertheless managed to escape. A rescue mission was undertaken by the British Humber force and Home fleet. Spearfish safely put in Rosyth on the 26th. Repairs to Spearfish were completed in early March 1940. |
| 1940 | Tuna (N 94) | HMS Tuna torpedoes and sinks the German catapult ship Ostmark in the Bay of Biscay about 35 nautical miles south-west of St. Nazaire, France. |
| 1940 | Cachalot (N 84) | HMS Cachalot attacks a submarine with torpedoes in the Bay of Biscay. The target is not hit. |
| 1941 | Triumph (N 18) | HMS Triumph damages the Italian tanker Poseidone and the Italian merchant Sidamo off Ortona, Abruzzi, Italy. |
| 1941 | Urge (N 17) | An attack was made a 2,500 ton Merchant Vessel. All torpedoes missed. |
| 1941 | P 36 | Completed |
| 1942 | Sea Dog (P 216) | Completed |
| 1942 | Usurper (P 56) | Launched |
| 1943 | Ultor (P 53) | HMS Ultor torpedoes and damages the German tanker Champagne 11 nautical miles east of Bastia, Corsica, France. |
| 1944 | Tudor (P 326) | HMS Tudor lays mines off the west coast of Siam. |
| 1944 | Vigorous (P 74) | HMS Vigorous claims the sinking of a sailing vessel south-east of Cape Drepano, Sithonia Peninsula, Greece. |
| 1944 | Visigoth (P 76) | HMS Visigoth damages two sailing vessels with gunfire in Strati harbour, Crete, Greece. |
| 1944 | Vox (P 73) | HMS Vox sinks a sailing vessel with gunfire about 15 nautical miles south of the Kassandra Peninsula, Greece. |
| 1945 | Ambush (P 418) | Launched |
| 1952 | Sportsman (P 229) | She was lost off Toulon on 24 September 1952. The entire crew of 47 officers and men went down with the ship. |
| 1960 | Onslaught (S 14) | Launched |
| 2026 | Agamemnon (S 124) | Agammenon is moved through the Dock system at Barrow in preparation for its departure. |
Onslaught (S 14) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
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| Build Group: | O2a |
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Fate: Broken Up 1991 |
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The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain's most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicised as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients.
A force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines set out on ships and submarines to try to block the key strategic port, in a bold attempt to stem the catastrophic losses being inflicted on British shipping by German submarines. It meant attacking a heavily fortified German naval base. The tide, calm weather and the right wind direction for a smoke screen were crucial to the plan.
Judged purely on results, it can only be considered a partial strategic success. Casualties were high and the base only partially blocked. Nonetheless, it came to represent the embodiment of the bulldog spirit, the peculiarly British fighting elan, the belief that anything was possible with enough dash and daring.
The essential story of the Zeebrugge mission has been told before, but never through the direct, first-hand accounts of its survivors, including that of Lieutenant Richard Sandford, VC, the acknowledged hero of the day, and the author's great uncle. The fire and bloodshed of the occasion is the book's centrepiece, but there is also room for the family and private lives of the men who volunteered in their hundreds for what they knew effectively to be a suicide mission.
Zeebrugge gives a very real sense of the existence of the ordinary British men and women of 100 years ago, made extraordinary by their role in what Winston Churchill called the 'most intrepid and heroic single armed adventure of the Great War.'
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Onslaught (S 14) |
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| Class: | 1959 - 1998: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O2a |
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Fate: Broken Up 1991 |
|
The combined forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 remains one of Britain's most glorious military undertakings; not quite as epic a failure as the charge of the Light Brigade, or as well publicised as the Dam Busters raid, but with many of the same basic ingredients.
A force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines set out on ships and submarines to try to block the key strategic port, in a bold attempt to stem the catastrophic losses being inflicted on British shipping by German submarines. It meant attacking a heavily fortified German naval base. The tide, calm weather and the right wind direction for a smoke screen were crucial to the plan.
Judged purely on results, it can only be considered a partial strategic success. Casualties were high and the base only partially blocked. Nonetheless, it came to represent the embodiment of the bulldog spirit, the peculiarly British fighting elan, the belief that anything was possible with enough dash and daring.
The essential story of the Zeebrugge mission has been told before, but never through the direct, first-hand accounts of its survivors, including that of Lieutenant Richard Sandford, VC, the acknowledged hero of the day, and the author's great uncle. The fire and bloodshed of the occasion is the book's centrepiece, but there is also room for the family and private lives of the men who volunteered in their hundreds for what they knew effectively to be a suicide mission.
Zeebrugge gives a very real sense of the existence of the ordinary British men and women of 100 years ago, made extraordinary by their role in what Winston Churchill called the 'most intrepid and heroic single armed adventure of the Great War.'
14 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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