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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 9

1902 No 4 Launched
1905 C 8 (I 38) Laid Down
1917 K 9 Completed
1918 H 24 Completed
1918 H 30 Launched
1942 Upright (N 89) HMS Upright sinks an Italian drydock under tow with gunfire near Cape dell' Armi.
1942 Trenchant (P 331) Laid Down
1943 Unrivalled (P 45) HMS Unrivalled sinks the Italian Santa Mariana Salina
1945 Statesman (P 246) HMS Statesman sinks a Japanese sailing vessel with demolition charges in the Strait of Malacca.
1958 Sturdy (P 248) Scrapped at Dunstone
Lastest Comments
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 ...

Featured Boat

Credit: R Fry
Scotsman (P 243)
Class: 1935 - 1970: Improved S Class
Built By:
Build Group: S3
Fate:
Scrapped 19th November 1964.

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