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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 - February 7

1908 C 23 (I 53) Laid Down
1921 H 1 Sold to be broken up at Malta.
1925 Alaunia (F17) 1927 - 1957 Launched
1944 HMS XE22 XE22 was lost 7 February 1944 in a collision in Pentland Forth.
1944 X 22 (Exploit) X22 was involved in towing exercises with HMS Syrtis when heavy seas and gale force winds washed Syrtis’s Officer of the Watch overboard.

The towing submarine immediately turned to rescue the officer and in doing so collided with X22. The small X-craft sank almost immediately.
1944 Taku (N 38) HMS Taku torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Rheinhausen about 20 nautical miles north of Stavanger, Norway.
1945 Subtle (P 251) HMS Subtle sinks a Japanese coaster east of the Nicobar Islands
1947 Aurochs (P 426) Completed
1987 Torbay (S 90) Completed
1989 Trenchant (S 91) Left Barrow
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