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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 - April 25
| 1916 | E 22 (I 79) | HMS E22 was on surface passage in the North Sea. At just after 1150 a torpedo fired from the German submarine UB18 struck the vessel sending her immediately to the bottom. Of the crew of 33 only two survived having been picked up by U18 and taken as Prisoners of War. ERA F S Buckingham and Signalman W T Harrod. |
| 1918 | H 23 | Completed |
| 1918 | R 1 | Launched |
| 1918 | R 2 | Launched |
| 1940 | Trident (N 52) | HMS Trident fires two torpedoes against the German merchants Palime and Pelikan about 30 nautical miles south-west of Lindesnes, Norway. Both torpedoes missed. |
| 1941 | Upholder (N 99) | HMS Upholder torpedoes and sinks the Italian Antonietta Lauro, near Kerkennah Buoy #3, Tunisia. |
| 1941 | P311 (Tutankhamen) | Laid Down |
| 1945 | Sea Scout (P 253) | HMS Sea Scout sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire off Sumbawa Island, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1956 | Porpoise (S 01) | Launched |
| 1979 | Trafalgar (S 107) | Laid Down |
