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.
| 1916 | B 10 (I 20) | Aircraft of the Austrian Naval Air Service raided the port of Venice. HMS B10 was lost as she was tied up after taking part in the blockade of Pola alongside the Italian Cruiser Marco Polo, which was acting as depot ship. |
| 1926 | H 29 | HMS H29 lay alongside No.2 Basin in Devonport Dockyard. She had recently completed a refit and it was necessary to test the torpedo tube mechanisms. In order to do so the submarine was required to be "trimmed down". As the submarine began to trim several men came rushing on deck. H29's stern began to sink low in the water and attempts to shut the aft hatch were thwarted by a 4-inch pipe passing through it. Water began to rush through the hatch before the pipe could be removed. H29 sank in under 2 minutes. Read More |
| 1943 | Simoom (P 225) | HMS Simoom attacked Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi off La Spezia. The torpedoes missed the cruiser but hit and sank the destroyer Vincenzo Gioberti |
| 1944 | Trenchant (P 331) | HMS Trenchant sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Hiyoshi Maru No.3 and two other small Japanese vessels with gunfire off the south-west coast of Sumatra. |
| 1944 | Vox (P 73) | HMS Vox claims to have damaged a small German merchant with gunfire off Candia, Crete, Greece. |
| 1945 | Nagasaki | Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. |
| 1945 | HMS Tiptoe and HMS Trump | HMS Tiptoe and HMS Trump together sink an unidentified Japanese oiler with gunfire in the northern part of the Sunda Strait |
| Class: | 1990 - 1994: Upholder Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | 2400 |
| Fate: | |
| Laid up 1995 then Lease/sold to Canadians in 2000 became Cornerbrook | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
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| Class: | 1990 - 1994: Upholder Class |
| Built By: | Cammell Laird (Mersey) |
| Build Group: | 2400 |
| Fate: | |
| Laid up 1995 then Lease/sold to Canadians in 2000 became Cornerbrook | |
This witty and perceptive account of the early years of submarine development contains much new material and the lives of the forgotten pioneers of submarines.
It includes many wonderful inventions and even more colourful inventors, but focuses primarily on John Philip Holland, the Irish-American genius who took submarine development out of the hands of lunatics and visionaries and turned it into a deadly weapon of war
13 pages added or updated in the last 3 month
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