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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 3

1915	J 2	Laid Down
1940	Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942	Arrivied in Alexandria to serve as the base ship for the 1st Submarine Flotilla.
1941	Usk (N 65)	HMS Usk sailed from Malta for a patrol off the NW coast of Sicily on 19 April 1941. Anti-submarine activity was intense and Usk was ordered to alter her position. What happened to Usk is not known but she is most likely mined in the vicinity of Cape Bon some time after 25 April 1941. She was reported overdue on 3 May 1941
1941	Triumph (N 18)	HMS Triumph sinks the Italian auxilary patrol vessel V 136/Tugnin F. with gunfire about 10 nautical miles west of Marsa el Brega, Libya.
1941	P 32	Completed
1942	Unrivalled (P 45)	Completed
1943	Upshot (P 82)	Laid Down
1944	Tantalus (P 318)	HMS Tantalus torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Amagi Maru about 40 nautical miles south of Port Blair, Andaman Islands.
1944	Unswerving (P 63)	HMS Unswerving sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece.
1945	H 6	Scuttled in the harbour at Kiel whilst in German service as U-D1
2019	King George VI (S 129)	The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC, announced King George VI as the name of the fourth in class submarine for the Dreadnought Programme. The name was announced this, ahead of a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the 50th year of Operation Relentless, which provides Continuous at Sea Deterrence (CASD).

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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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Clyde (N 12)

Class:	1929 - 1945: River Class
Built By:	Vickers (Barrow)
Build Group:	River 2
Fate:
Sold on 30th July 1946 and scrapped at Durban.

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