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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 - August 14
1909 | C27 | Completed |
1909 | C28 | Completed |
1915 | F1 | Completed |
1915 | G1 | Launched |
1936 | Orzel (Polish) | Laid Down |
1940 | Osiris (N67) | Torpedoed and sunk the Italian steamship Leopardi. |
1942 | Traveller (N48) | HMS Traveller ended her 2nd war patrol at Beirut. |
1943 | Saracen (P247) | HMS Saracen suffers flooding after heavy depth charge attacks by Italian torpedo boats Euterpe and Minerva off Bastia. Unable to control buoyancy, the crew assembles in the control room to make their escape to the surface, and Saracen sinks after being abandoned |
1944 | Sturdy (P248) | HMS Sturdy sinks two Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire off the west coast of Burma. |
1945 | Statesman (P246) | HMS Statesman sinks 5 Japanese sailing vessels with gunfire and demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca. |
1962 | Onslaught (S14) | Commissioned |
1993 | Vanguard (S28) | Completed |