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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 - May 5

1909	C 22 (I 52)	Completed
1909	C 23 (I 53)	Completed
1909	C 24 (I54)	Completed
1915	V 1	Completed
1917	P 512	Laid Down
1920	P 552	Commissioned
1928	Odin (N 84)	Launched
1930	Poseidon (N 99)	Completed
1938	Maidstone (F44) 1937 - 1978	Submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone commissioned
1938	Maidstone (F44) 1937 - 1978	Commissioned
1939	Triad (N 53)	Launched
1939	Truant (N 68)	Launched
1940	Seal (N 37)	The small Swedish fishing vessel GG 256 / Almy hits a mine and sinks. The mine was laid by the British submarine HMS Seal in the Kattegat on 4 May 1940.
1943	Tactician (P 314)	HMS Tactician sinks the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel V17/Pia with gunfire about 10 nautical miles west of Grosseto, Italy.
1943	Sea Devil (P 244)	Laid Down
1944	Unswerving (P 63)	HMS Unswerving sinks three sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece.
1945	Scythian (P 237)	HMS Scythian sinks a small Japanese vessel with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1945	Statesman (P 246)	HMS Statesman sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire in the Strait of Malacca.
1955	Minnow (X 54)	Launched
1962	Ocelot (S 17)	Launched

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16/04/2026 on page Thorough (P 324)
navy42 wrote:
	Lord Kitchener was lost in the sinking of HMS Hampshire, denoted by the black field. As Secretary of State, he initiated the recruiting scheme which raised the new army. The first complete New Army formation (as opposed to divisions) as a result of this scheme was the 4th Army under the command of G ...

12/04/2026 on page Cecil Broad 1905 - 1978
navy42 wrote:
	I believe that he also designed the Badge for HMS Thorough. It\'s a great pity that his notes do not appear to have survived

10/04/2026 on page One Submarine, Two Captains - The Early Years of HMS Repulse
Mike Watson wrote:
	I served on Repulse port crew 1st commission. Everything said about Phil Wadman is correct. I would like to also like to mention Toby Elliott who was communications officer, another top man. Soapy Watson

09/04/2026 on page Onslaught (S 14)
Stephen Alexander wrote:
	Stern torpedo tubes removed in final refit in 1982/83 in Devonport Dockyard

26/03/2026 on page The History Of British Submarine Sonars
Simon Cains wrote:
	Many British newspapers reported that a Reverend Corder of Radnage in Buckinghamshire had, at the end of 1914, devised a method of detecting submarines which he \"gave to the government\" and led to the invention of the hydrophone. At the beginning of the war he was asked to join Lord Fisher\'s ...

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