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.
| 1908 | C 27 (I 57) | Laid Down |
| 1908 | C 29 (I 59) | Laid Down |
| 1915 | H 2 | Completed |
| 1919 | L 55 | It is believed that after firing her torpedoes at Soviet destroyers she had broken surface. She is subsequently thought to have dived into a minefield to evade the attacking destroyers and exploded a British mine. |
| 1940 | Dunkirk | Dunkirk evacuation completed. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from capture by the Nazis |
| 1942 | Trusty (N 45) | HMS Trusty torpedoes and sinks the Japanese merchant cargo ship Toyohashi Maru in Strait of Malacca. |
| 1943 | Truculent (P 315) | HMS Truculent torpedoes and sinks the German submarine U-308 in the Norwegian sea north-east of the Faeroes. |
| 1944 | Sickle (P 224) | Sickle fired upon shipping in Mitylene Harbour and was engaged in gunfire with German patrol vessels GA76 and GA91 during which Able Seaman Richard Blake, a member of the submarines 3 inch gun crew who was blown over board. The submarine had to make an urgent dive to avoid further hits, and Blake was left in the water and picked up by the Germans to become a POW. Sickle escaped the engagement and continued on her patrol |
| 1944 | Templar (P 316) | HMS Templar lays mines in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 1947 | Seneschal (P 255) | HMS Seneschal suffers an explosion. |
| 1962 | Sea Devil (P 244) | She returned to Portsmouth from the Mediterranean to be paid off for disposal. |
| 2025 | Astute (S 119) | After 15 years’ continuous service around the globe, the longest first commission in the history of the Silent Service, Astute arrived in Devonport to be handed over to the team at Babcock for a multi-million-pound Mid Life Re-Validation Period (MLRP). |
O 23 (Dutch) |
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| Class: | 1940 - 1946: The 9th Foltilla |
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| Build Group: | Dutch O21 |
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Fate: Decommissioned on 1 December 1948. Sold to be broken up for scrap in April 1949. |
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Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
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O 23 (Dutch) |
|
| Class: | 1940 - 1946: The 9th Foltilla |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | Dutch O21 |
|
Fate: Decommissioned on 1 December 1948. Sold to be broken up for scrap in April 1949. |
|
Part of the military documentary series examining each aspect of the armed forces.
This volume looks at the history and role of the submarine in the modern navy. Starting out as experimental oddities in the American Civil War, the most advanced submarines in the present day hold a crew of several hundred, can remain at sea for a year at a time, and are capable of launching dozens of thermonuclear missles at any spot in the world.
20 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
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