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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 -

1898 Rosario 1898 - 1921 Laid down
1904 Umpire (N 82) Laid Down
1910 C 37 (I 67) Launched
1914 E 18 (I 98) Laid Down
1915 E 33 Laid Down
1915 E 47 Laid Down
1915 E 48 Laid Down
1917 K 4 Completed
1918 H 52 Laid Down
1931 Sturgeon (N 73) / Zeehond (Dutch) Laid Down
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks fous small Japanese vessels with gunfire north-east of Sumatra.
1945 Thorough (P 324) HMS Thorough sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire of the west coast of Siam.
1979 Forth (F04) 1938 - 1978 Decommissioned
Lastest Comments
15/02/2026 on page Taurus (P 339)
Dillon Pringle wrote:
My great grandfather served aboard this vessel during the war. My grandfather recalls him telling stories about how terrible it was. However, a duty must be done.
31/12/2025 on page Unruly (P 49)
Prue Hames wrote:
My Father served on HMS Unruly - Able Seaman John Smith DSM
05/12/2025 on page The History Of British Submarine Sonars
Alan Moore wrote:
The interim sonar prior to 2046 was 2061 not 2062. I worked on 2031z and 2061 between 1985 & 1987 at ARE Portland North. If I looked up from my desk I had a great view of a portion of Portland Harbour and lots of Weymouth Bay.
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.
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Sportsman (P 229)


Class: 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class
Built By: Chatham Dockyard (Medway)
Build Group: S3
Fate:
She was lost off Toulon on 24 September 1952.

The entire crew of 47 officers and men went down with the ship.
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Featured Book
Fatal Dive
The incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it.

One question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something else—one of the sub's own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers' complaints about the MK 14 torpedo's dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon.

Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43. Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.
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