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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 21

1902 No 5 Launched
1915 K 3 Laid Down
1941 Urge (N 17) An attack was made on two Italian Cruisers escorted by three destroyers and a torpedo boat in position 35`30'N 12`25'E both of the Cruisers were missed however the 1,200 ton Destroyer CURTATONE,which was one of the escorts was sunk.
1942 Unshaken (P 54) Completed
1943 Sickle (P 224) HMS Sickle attacked U-755 but missed. Sickle then torpedoed & sank U-303 south of Toulon
1943 Unbroken (P 42) HMS Unbroken torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Bologna 8 nautical miles off Capo Vaticano.
1943 Variance (P 85) Laid Down
1943 Vineyard (P 84) / Doris (French) Laid Down
1944 Upstart (P 65) HMS Upstart torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Tolentino half a mile east of Port Vendres, southern France.
1968 USS Scorpion The nuclear-powered US submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, was last heard from. (The remains of the sub were later found on the ocean floor 400 miles SW of the Azores.)
1998 HMCS Ojibwa HMCS Ojibwa was paid off to alongside training
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