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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 - November 1

1915 E 30 Completed
1915 K 1 Laid Down
1915 K 14 Laid Down
1916 E 33 Completed
1917 J 7 Completed
1917 R 7 Laid Down
1917 R 8 Laid Down
1918 G 7 (I A9) Sunk by enemy action in the North Sea. Contact was lost on the 23rd October and she was declared lost on 1st November, the last British submarine lost in WW1
1918 H 41 Completed
1918 P 555 Laid down
1939 Sterlet (N 22) Sterlet set-off on her 3rd war-patrol, having been ordered to patrol west of Denmark.
1940 Thetis (N 25) Completed
1940 Thunderbolt (N 25) Completed
1940 P 615 Launched
1941 Utmost (N 19) HMS Utmost destroys the Italian merchant Marigola off Kuriat Island, Tunisia.
1942 O 24 (Dutch) Attacked a Japanese merchant vessel with two torpedoes about 60 nautical miles west-northwest of Langkawi. Two torpedoes were fired but no hits were obtained.
1943 Veldt (P 71) Completed
1943 X 6 (Piker II) Launched
1944 Storm (P 233) HMS Storm sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Boni, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies.
1946 L 26 HMS L-26 scuttled Halifax approaches
1952 First Hydrogen Bomb United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands
Lastest Comments
21/10/2025 on page Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942
L Bradley wrote:
My father Frederick Percival Collins was a leading torpedo man He served on HMS Medway and was in China 1931 I have family photos which are badly water /oil stained due I was told because they were in his wallet when his ship was torpedoed. No mention of this on his service records.
09/10/2025 on page E 54
Ian Wallace wrote:
I can confirm that Leading Seaman Crust died by suicide. He used a signal gun that was available in the conning tower where he was on duty. The effect was to blow a large part of his head off. My wife\'s grandfather was responsible for cleaning parts of his brain up which were scattered over the con ...
16/09/2025 on page Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942
Michael Barker wrote:
My Uncle was Charles Oliver Mansfield Vine 2nd Lieutenant who I believe served on the submarine Thrasher. I believe he died on the attack on the depot ship but have no detailed information. I would like to know more
14/09/2025 on page H 28
david edwards wrote:
the Navy List Oct 1931 has the \"Lieut. in Command\" as Lt. Richard Sheridan-Patterson. His service record shows command 17.12.30 - 23.11.31.
24/08/2025 on page Spartan (S 105)
Martin Gallagher wrote:
My friend Dave New served on this boat, it is with great sadness I inform you of his passing. 2024.