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.
| 1915 | J 2 | Laid Down |
| 1940 | Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942 | Arrivied in Alexandria to serve as the base ship for the 1st Submarine Flotilla. |
| 1941 | Usk (N 65) | HMS Usk sailed from Malta for a patrol off the NW coast of Sicily on 19 April 1941. Anti-submarine activity was intense and Usk was ordered to alter her position. What happened to Usk is not known but she is most likely mined in the vicinity of Cape Bon some time after 25 April 1941. She was reported overdue on 3 May 1941 |
| 1941 | Triumph (N 18) | HMS Triumph sinks the Italian auxilary patrol vessel V 136/Tugnin F. with gunfire about 10 nautical miles west of Marsa el Brega, Libya. |
| 1941 | P 32 | Completed |
| 1942 | Unrivalled (P 45) | Completed |
| 1943 | Upshot (P 82) | Laid Down |
| 1944 | Tantalus (P 318) | HMS Tantalus torpedoes and sinks the Japanese army cargo ship Amagi Maru about 40 nautical miles south of Port Blair, Andaman Islands. |
| 1944 | Unswerving (P 63) | HMS Unswerving sinks two sailing vessels with gunfire in the Gulf of Nauplia, Greece. |
| 1945 | H 6 | Scuttled in the harbour at Kiel whilst in German service as U-D1 |
| 2019 | King George VI (S 129) | The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones KCB ADC, announced King George VI as the name of the fourth in class submarine for the Dreadnought Programme. The name was announced this, ahead of a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the 50th year of Operation Relentless, which provides Continuous at Sea Deterrence (CASD). |
| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | F08 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped at Inverkeithing November 1946 | |
Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord.
Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and antisubmarine nets to accurately place four tons of high explosive under the hull of the Tirpitz.
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| Class: | Depot Ships |
| Built By: | Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (Clyde) |
| Build Group: | F08 |
| Fate: | |
| Scrapped at Inverkeithing November 1946 | |
Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her fortified mooring in a Norwegian fjord.
Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and antisubmarine nets to accurately place four tons of high explosive under the hull of the Tirpitz.
17 pages added or updated in the last 1 month
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