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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 - September 16
| 1916 | E36 | Launched |
| 1939 | Triad (N53) | Completed |
| 1939 | Seahorse (S98) | HMS Seahorse departed Dundee for her 2nd war patrol. She was ordered to patrol off the south-west coast of Norway. |
| 1940 | H49 | HMS H 49 fired 4 torpedoes at a large, 16 ship, convoy and 8 bunched ships were fired at without success. |
| 1942 | Sahib (P212) | HMS Sahib sinks an Italian sailing vessel with gunfire west of Sardinia. |
| 1943 | X9 | On 11th September 1943 X9 left Loch Cairnbawn under tow from HMS Syrtis to take part in the attack on the Scharnhorst. During the passage the Syrtis remained on the surface, whilst the x-craft, manned by a passage crew, remained dived. The midget submarine was due to surface at regular intervals to ventilate. On the 16th Syrtis made the signal for the x-craft to surface. There was no reply. At this point the tow was hauled in and was found to have parted and despite an extensive search, no sign of X9 was ever found. |
| 1944 | Tradewind (P329) | HMS Tradewind sinks two small Japanese vessels with scuttling charges off the Sunda Strait. |
| 1944 | Trenchant (P331) | HMS Trenchant lays mines in the the Straits of Malacca. |
| 1958 | 1921 - 1965: Ausonia (F53) | Commissioned at Devomport to relieve HMS Ranpura after 12 months in reserve |
