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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.

RN Subs

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Una (N 87)

Class:	1936 - 1958: U Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	U1
Fate:
Sold for scrapping on 11th April 1949 at Llanelly.

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Their goal was to destroy merchant shipping bound for the British Isles with essential supplies, and bring the country to the brink of starvation and total collapse allowing an easy Nazi invasion.

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