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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 - November 19
| 1909 | C31 | Completed |
| 1909 | C32 | Completed |
| 1914 | W1 | Launched |
| 1918 | H32 | Launched |
| 1918 | H47 | Launched |
| 1941 | Rorqual (N74) | HMS Rorqual lays 50 mines in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle, France. |
| 1941 | Dolfijn (P47) | Laid Down |
| 1941 | Unruly (P49) | Laid Down |
| 1942 | Porpoise (N14) | HMS Porpoise fires a torpedo against the Italian auxiliary patrol vessel F 39/Fertilia off the Libyan coast. The torpedo missed. |
| 1943 | Simoom (P225) | HMS Simoon believed lost by mines near the Dardanelles. No survivors HMS Simoom sailed for a patrol in the Aegean on 2nd November 1943. On the 5th she received a signal to divert to the entrance of the Dardanelles. Ten days later she was sent orders to return to port. The submarine never arrived. On 15th November German radio broadcasts stated that a submarine had been destroyed in the Aegean and that several of the crew had been rescued. It is unlikely that this was Simoom, as it would have put her miles out of position. None of the claimed survivors stated that they were from Simoom. It is more likely that the submarine struck a mine or was lost through an accident. |
| 1943 | Sibyl (P217) | HMS Sibyl sinks a Greek sailing vessel with gunfire in the Gulf of Saloniki, Greece. |
| 1943 | Sickle (P224) | HMS Sickle torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant (in German service) Giovanni Boccaccio off Monemvasia, Greece. |
| 1944 | Stratagem (P234) | HMS Stratagem torpedoes and sinks the the Japanese tanker Nichinan Maru in the Malacca Strait. |
| 1944 | Thorough (P324) | HMS Thorough lays mines in the Strait of Malacca. |
| 1948 | Sidon (P259) | 19th November 1948 Taken in hand at Portsmouth for fitting ballast. |
| 1969 | HMCS Grilse | HMCS Grilse (ex-USS Burrfish) sunk as a target off San Clemente, California by USN |
