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.
| 1906 | B 10 (I 20) | Completed |
| 1916 | K 6 | Launched |
| 1916 | K 7 | Launched |
| 1918 | L 16 | Completed |
| 1927 | Otus (N 92) | Laid Down |
| 1934 | Shark (N 54) | Launched |
| 1940 | Dunkirk | 68,014 men were evacuated from Dunkirk today. This will be the most successful day of Operation Dynamo. |
| 1940 | Seal (N 37) | The small Swedish fishing vessel GG 5/Mode hits a mine and sinks. The mine was laid by the British submarine HMS Seal in the Kattegat on 4 May 1940. |
| 1944 | Sickle (P 224) | HMS Sickle left for a patrol in the northern Aegean |
| 1944 | Ultor (P 53) | HMS Ultor sinks the German guardvessel FCi 01 with gunfire off Cassis, southern France. |
| 1944 | Alaric (P 441) | Laid Down |
| 2004 | HMS Bulwark | The landing ship HMS Bulwark commences sea trials at Barrow |
As a young schoolboy I wanted to be a captain of a Royal Navy destroyer (described as greyhounds of the sea). But I was born on the wrong side of the track. One needed tradition, money, a good family background, and education, Oxford or Cambridge schooling, but I didn’t qualify on any of those counts. I left school at age 14 to work in an engineering company. Three years later World War II started, and I was 17 years of age.
It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staffs committee to enquire what was being done to emulate these daring attacks.
The result was the development of British 'chariots' which were regarded as stop-gaps until the X-Craft or midget submarines could be deployed.
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As a young schoolboy I wanted to be a captain of a Royal Navy destroyer (described as greyhounds of the sea). But I was born on the wrong side of the track. One needed tradition, money, a good family background, and education, Oxford or Cambridge schooling, but I didn’t qualify on any of those counts. I left school at age 14 to work in an engineering company. Three years later World War II started, and I was 17 years of age.
It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staffs committee to enquire what was being done to emulate these daring attacks.
The result was the development of British 'chariots' which were regarded as stop-gaps until the X-Craft or midget submarines could be deployed.
17 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
Please help to maintain this site by reporting any Errors, Broken Links, Information or Site Issues on this page using this button
If you find this site useful, please consider supporting my work with a small Donation.
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Thankyou for your support.