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This is the website of the Barrow-in-Furness Branch of the Submariners Association. 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 - July 20
| 1915 | E11 | E11 moved into the Gulf of Izmir and during the night the submarine's first officer, Lt Guy D'Oyly-Hughes, swam ashore and blew up a section of the Constantinople to Baghdad railway line, a feat for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. |
| 1915 | E11 | Stoker Henry Mayne was accidentally lost over board in the Mediterranean about 150 miles from Malta. E11's First Lieutenant, Lieutenant Guy D'Oyly-Hughes, jumped in to save him but Mayne was lost. D'Oyly-Hughes was awarded the Silver Medal of the Royal Humane Society in 1915 for his efforts to save Mayne. |
| 1918 | E34 | Lost with all hands. The submarine had sailed from Harwich on the morning of 14th July 1918 with orders to lay a minefield off Vlieland and was reported lost on the 20th July 1918. No reason has been discovered for her loss, but it is possible that she was mined. There were no survivors. |
| 1919 | M4 | Launched |
| 1940 | Parthian (N75) | HMS Parthian landed an agent on Crete |
| 1940 | P612 | Launched |
| 1941 | Union (N56) | HMS Union sailed from Malta at 0100 on 14 July 1941. On 20 July 1941 she was sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Circe 25 miles SW of Pantelleria Island in the Strait of Sicily. Union was reported overdue on 22 July 1941 |
| 1943 | Safari (P211) | HMS Safari torpedoes and sinks the Italian pilot vessel F 50/Silvio Onorato between Bastia and Maddalena. |
| 1943 | Spirit (P245) | Launched |
| 1943 | Vampire (P72) | Launched |
| 1944 | Unswerving (P63) | HMS Unswerving fires three torpedoes at the German transport Pelikan and it's escort the German torpedo boat TA 19 off Suda Bay, Crete. The torpedoes miss. |
| 1944 | Vengeful (P86) | Launched |
| 1945 | Thule (P325) | HMS Thule sinks a Japanese coaster with gunfire of the north coast of Java, Netherlands East Indies. |
| 1950 | Sidon (P259) | Sidon towed the midget submarine "XE8" from Plymouth to Portsmouth. |
| 1960 | Polaris | In first launch of Polaris missile, USS George Washington successfully fires 2 operational Polaris missiles while submerged off Florida |
