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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 - March 23
| 1905 | A 6 (I 16) | Commissioned |
| 1906 | B 10 (I 20) | Launched |
| 1912 | D 8 (I 78) | Completed |
| 1922 | H 42 | Sunk in Collision with HMS Versatile off Gibraltar As part of the 3rd Submarine Flotilla H42 had spent Christmas 1921 in Portsmouth before sailing in January 1922 for exercises in the Mediterranean. H42 surfaced just off Gibraltar 120 yards in front of the destroyer HMS Versatile who at that time was cruising at 20 knots. The Destroyer was unable to take avoiding action and ploughed into the submarine almost slicing her in two. |
| 1942 | Unison (P 43) | HMS Unison torpedoes and sinks the Italian tanker Zeila off Cape Spartivento. |
| 1943 | Sahib (P 212) | HMS Sahib torpedoes ans sinks the small Italian merchant Tosca west of Cape Calava, Sicily, Italy. |
| 1943 | Stonehenge (P 232) | Launched |
| 1943 | Talent (P 322) / Zwaardvisch (Dutch) | Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy. |
| 1944 | Urtica (P 83) | Launched |
| 1945 | P 553 | Sunk as target |
